Christopher Howe is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Taxand, LLC in New York. Mr. Howe has over 20 years of experience and focuses on restructuring tax matters and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Chris leads the firms Restructuring Tax Service (“RTS”) initiative, which aligns with A&M’s core restructuring business to assist distressed companies with complex tax matters. He has a deep understanding of tax matters pertaining to troubled companies, bankruptcy reorganizations, workouts and restructurings. He was part of A&M’s tax team advising on the federal tax aspects of numerous out of court restructurings as well as in court Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. He has advised a significant number of public and private “loss” companies (both pre- and post-bankruptcy) on the viability of their tax attributes including Section 382 (l)(5) planning as well as the effect of debt discharge income and the application of the consolidated return rules. Mr. Howe leads the national Section 382 practice and is a subject matter specialist in NOL preservation and planning. Mr. Howe has significant experience on transactional and general corporate tax matters. He brings experience in private equity, corporate tax and accounting, tax planning and tax controversy matters. His professional focus has been on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, tax due diligence, cash tax modeling, complex carve-out transactions, capital structure planning, reorganizations, group structure changes, entity rationalization, cash and effective tax rate optimization, and integration of existing and acquired businesses.Mr. Howe holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration from Northeastern University. He is an alumni of Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Touché and Arthur Andersen. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the state of Massachusetts and is a member of the of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).