Leah B. Segal
Director
Boston
lsegal@goulstonstorrs.com+1 617 574 2202Leah B. Segal
Director, Boston
lsegal@goulstonstorrs.com+1 617 574 2202Related Expertise
Clients call on Leah Segal for sophisticated and practical tax advice that is attuned to their unique business needs.She counsels a wide range of clients, including multinational companies, real estate sponsors and investors, REITs and REMICs, tax-exempt organizations and family offices on domestic and cross-border matters.
Leah brings particular depth in structuring a wide array of real estate transactions, from joint ventures, complex acquisitions and dispositions, internal reorganizations and financings to distressed restructurings and workouts, and in advising on various aspects of mergers and acquisitions, corporate and partnership restructurings and other transactions. She has extensive experience working with tax-exempt and charitable organizations, helping them secure and maintain tax-exempt status, stay ahead of compliance and governance obligations and navigate ongoing operations and transactions. She counsels clients in connection with federal and state tax audits and provides tax guidance related to litigation matters. Leah maintains a robust pro bono practice as well.
Related Representative Matters
A foreign pension fund investor in connection with its joint venture, commingled fund and club fund investments, and co-investments, in U.S. real estate, infrastructure and natural resources, including “anchor investor” positions in funds, programmatic joint ventures and single asset joint ventures.
A lead investor on a $250 million investment in a US timber fund structured as a timber REIT.
A foreign pension fund investor in connection with its majority equity investment in the Hines-sponsored South Station development project – a 1.9 million s.f. multi-phase, mixed-use project at Boston’s South Station intermodal transportation center.
A Canadian residential housing company in real estate transactions across the United States. Representation includes securitized bond financing to fund the acquisition and development of single-family homes across the U.S.
Tricon Residential's acquisition of a Starlight Fund, which owns a portfolio of 23 multifamily projects totaling ~7,300 units across multiple states.
M&M Transport Services, a dedicated contract carrier that provides specialty solutions for the retail and manufacturing verticals, on its sale to Schneider National, Inc., a premier multimodal provider of transportation, intermodal, and logistics services.
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Accolades
- Law.com, "New Leader in the Law," 2024 New England Legal Awards
- 2023 "Stand-out Lawyers," Thomson Reuters
- Best Lawyers in America® (2021-2026): Tax Law
Affiliations
- Co-editor, BNA Tax Management Portfolio, Charitable Contributions by Corporations and Other Business Entities, No. 794, Bloomberg Tax
- Co-Author, Reexamining Underwater Lease Assumption Transactions, Tax Notes
Admissions
- Massachusetts
Education
Boston University School of Law ( J.D. , magna cum laude , 2014 )
Brown University ( A.B. , magna cum laude , 2008 )