Instructors in the Grad Tax Program

Brainard L. Patton

Mr. Patton is a practicing attorney, retired from the Boston office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He previously spent fifteen years with several Fortune 150 companies, including Asea Brown Boveri, in Stamford, CT, where he was International Tax Director. During an earlier part of his career, he and his family lived for twelve years in Belgium, France, […]

Thomas E. Peckham

Tom Peckham is a partner in the Private Client Group of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. His practice is concentrated in the areas of sophisticated estate planning for high net-worth individuals, estate and trust administration, and related tax and business planning. Mr. Peckham has more than 40 years of experience in tax and estate planning. […]

Ameek A. Ponda

Ameek Ashok Ponda is a partner and co-director of the Tax Department in Sullivan & Worcester LLP’s Boston office, and a member of the firm’s management committee. He has extensive experience in structuring corporate mergers and acquisitions, designing REIT transactions and financial instruments, and working on cross border financings and acquisitions. In 2010, Mr. Ponda […]

Christina Rice

Christina brings a unique perspective to her role Assistant Dean Graduate, International & Online Programs, having been a student of both the JD and LLM in Taxation programs at BU Law and an instructor in the GTP prior to assuming the director role. She also has a BA in Theater Education from Emerson College and […]

Norman Richter

Norm Richter teaches undergraduate and graduate level tax courses in the Graduate Tax Program at the Boston University Law School and at Babson College. He has appeared on local news and NPR programs as a tax expert, and on tax panels at tax conferences, as well as served on boards and planning committees for numerousacademic […]

Phillip G. Roshak

Mr. Roshak is a tax partner in the Boston office of Ernst & Young with over 19 years of experience providing tax services in both public accounting and corporate tax practice; he focuses on serving clients in the retail and consumer products industries. His experience also includes working with companies in the technology, medical device, […]

Matthew D. Schnall

Matthew D. Schnall, a partner in the Boston office of WilmerHale, handles a diverse range of business-related tax matters, and has extensive experience with state tax controversies. He lectures frequently on subjects in federal and state tax law. Mr. Schnall has served as chair of the Boston Bar Association Tax Section and of its State […]

Andrew Shact

Andrew Shact is a seasoned corporate tax executive with extensive experience organically building, externally acquiring, and tax efficiently restructuring multinational companies. He has a proven record delivering bottom-line tax expense reduction and cash savings. Andrew has built and revitalized tax departments at several high growth publicly traded and private equity owned US and foreign based […]