Howard L. Levin

Howard L. Levin, a Shareholder of Rich May, concentrates on commercial real estate and business law. Mr. Levin is a graduate of Duke University School of Law (J.D., 1978) and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (B.A., magna cum laude, 1975). He represents owners, developers and lenders in connection with a wide range of real estate development, acquisitions and sales, title, leasing, zoning, land use, subdivision control, finance and creditors’ rights matters. Mr. Levin represents clients before planning and zoning boards throughout Massachusetts, including appeals in state and federal courts. He has extensive experience in telecommunications facility siting under local, state and federal laws, including the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He represents landlords and tenants in connection with office, retail and restaurant leases. Mr. Levin advises emerging and established business enterprises from formation to public offering, including formation of corporations and limited liability companies, corporate finance, intellectual property, contracts and succession planning. Clients have included companies engaged in software, biotechnology, photonics, telecommunications, and motion picture content distribution. He has served as general counsel to entrepreneurs engaged in real estate, technology, service and manufacturing ventures. He presently serves as a Mentor for the MIT Venture Mentoring Service. Mr. Levin also serves as a member of the Political Science Advisory Board at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a member of the Massachusetts and Boston Bar Associations; Real Estate Bar Association; and The Abstract Club. Mr. Levin is a past Chairman of the Real Estate Section of the Boston Bar Association, past Chairman of the Condominium and Cooperative Law Committee, and is currently active in several Boston Bar Association committees. Mr. Levin served as an appointee of the Massachusetts Land Court to a task force responsible for revision of Registered Land Regulations, and is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education programs. Mr. Levin is active in community affairs and various charitable organizations. He lives with his wife and children in Lexington, Massachusetts.


Howard L. Levin has been named one of the elite lawyers in Massachusetts from 2005-2008, according to Super Lawyers, a joint publication of Boston Magazine and Law & Politics. His peers in Boston and throughout Massachusetts individually chose Mr. Levin as an outstanding attorney and legal counsel.