HowardLiebman

Howard Liebman has over 46 years of experience, 44 of them in Europe where he led Jones Day's Tax Practice in Brussels for 21 years. He focuses on international tax and corporate structuring, coordinating both the corporate and tax sides of transnational M&A, joint ventures, and restructurings and has extensive experience in negotiating and implementing pan-European and Latin American transactions.

Most recently, Howard represented Platinum Equity, first in the purchase of MACtac Europe from Bemis Corporation and then in the sale of the European and Asian operations to Avery Dennison. He represented the purchaser of more than 60,000 hectares of farmland in Russia, as well as NextiraOne Europe in its sale of 16 affiliates in 13 separate countries throughout Europe to Dimension Data. Howard also represented Platinum Equity in both its Dutch-Swedish-UK-Romanian acquisition of the Geesink Norba Group from Oshkosh Corporation and its subsequent sale to a German PE fund, as well as the purchase of the 3B-Fibreglass manufacturing business (Belgium/Norway) from Owens Corning and its subsequent sale to the Binani Group of India.

Until 2020, Howard was president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium, which takes the lead on issues of concern to U.S. industry. He is coauthor of the BNA Portfolio (No. 7451) on "Business Operations in the European Union — Regulatory" (2017) and has chaired and/or spoken at many conferences and seminars on international corporate and tax law topics. He has also been accorded the title of "University Professor" at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he teaches "International M&A" and "International and Comparative Tax Law," and serves on the board of directors of Transparency International Belgium and on the editorial board of Law360's "Tax Authority International."