Travis Blais Bio

Travis is the Managing Partner of Blais Halpert Tax Partners LLP. He structures, negotiates, and drafts for tax matters in high-value business transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, cross-border investment structuring, the formation of private equity and venture capital funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and executive compensation plans. Travis advises middle-market companies, entrepreneurs, investors, and executives throughout the life cycle of a business, beginning with formation and continuing through financing, expanding, attracting and retaining talent, to ultimate sale. A significant portion of Travis’ practice involves international tax and cross-border transactions, as well as clients in special industries, such as nonprofit institutions, cryptocurrency, and cannabis. Travis has a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University (1995) and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law (2000). He is regularly honored by his peers in Super Lawyers© and Best Lawyers©, and speaks and writes frequently about transactional tax issues for non-expert audiences. After growing up in New Hampshire and living in Washington, D.C., England, Saipan, and Ohio, Travis settled in Andover, Massachusetts with his wife, Sara, and their five children.