Ameek A. Ponda

Biography

Ameek Ashok Ponda is a tax partner at Sullivan & Worcester in Boston and was previously a member of the firm’s Management Committee and director of the firm’s Tax Department.

His practice includes domestic and international taxation, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and real estate investment trusts. As an adjunct professor with the Boston University School of Law Graduate Tax Program for over twenty-five years, he has taught tax courses on topics such as business planning, corporate reorganizations, international taxation, regulated investment companies and REITs, and financial products. He is currently serving as a lecturer on law with the Harvard Law School and previously with Boston College Law School. Ameek is President of the American College of Tax Counsel, Past Board Chair of Tax Analysts (publisher of the Tax Notes series of daily and weekly journals), and a member of the American Law Institute, the International Fiscal Association, the National Tax Association, and Nareit.

Ameek is a charter member and former secretary of The Indus Entrepreneurs – Boston, and a former member of the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council. He is also on the Board of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (which produces the free “Shakespeare on the Boston Common” in the summer), on the Board of the Harvard Club of Boston, and on the Advisory Boards of GBH (Boston’s PBS affiliate) and of the South Asian Bar Association of Greater Boston. In 2007, Boston Business Journal named Ameek one of its Boston “40 under 40”. He is fluent in Hindi and Urdu.

Ameek holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, summa cum laude, a JD from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, and an LLM in taxation, valedictorian, from Boston University School of Law. His most recently published article, a science fiction speculation on the future of taxation, appeared in Daedalus, the online journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.