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Ameek Ashok Ponda

Ameek Ashok Ponda

Work Department

Tax/REITs

Position

Ameek is director of Sullivan's Tax Department and a former member of the firm's Management Committee. His practice includes domestic and international taxation, with an emphasis on mergers & acquisitions and REIT transactions.

Ameek is nationally recognized for his work in REIT conversions and REIT cross-border matters. He has represented public and private REITs in an array of real property sectors, both domestically and abroad, including: business storage facilities; cold storage facilities; communications towers; data centers; dark and lit fiber; digital billboards; distributed antenna systems; hotels and travel centers; industrial properties; mortgage loans; single-family and multi-family residential; office buildings; parking facilities; retail properties; senior living facilities; solar, wind, and other power infrastructure; timberlands; transmission and distribution lines; as well as vineyards, greenhouses, and other agricultural properties.

Career

National Law Journal, Tax Law Trailblazer (2023) Top 10 Influential REIT Tax Lawyers Steering USA’s Financial Landscape Nationwide, Business Today (2023) Chambers USA, Recognized Practitioner in Tax (2006-2024), REITs (2013-2024) Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Go To Lawyer, Taxation (2022) Best Lawyers' Boston Tax Law Lawyer of the Year (2012, 2017) Best Lawyers in America® (2008-2024) The Legal 500 U.S. (2007-2024) 'Leading Lawyer' in REITs, The Legal 500 U.S. (2017-2024) The Tax Lawyers, Massachusetts Recommended Attorney (2021-2022) Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2004-2023) Boston Business Journal's 40-under-40 (2007)

Languages

English, Hindi, Urdu

Memberships

Member, Board of Advisors, GBH Secretary-Treasuer, American College of Tax Counsel Former Board of Regents, American College of Tax Counsel Chairman of the Board, Tax Analysts American Law Institute National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts International Fiscal Association National Tax Association Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council (IRSAC) Charter Member and former Secretary, The Indus Entrepreneurs-Boston American, Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations South Asian Bar Association Adjunct Professor, Boston University School of Law Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School

Education

Boston University School of Law (LL.M., valedictorian) Taxation Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude) Harvard College (B.A., summa cum laude)

Mentions

Real estate • United States

Real estate investment trusts (REITs)

Leading partner
Tax • United States

US taxes: non-contentious