Helen M. Hubbard

Helen Hubbard is the Acting Associate Chief Counsel (Financial Institutions and Products).  She supervises the Financial Institutions and Products Division, which includes approximately 70 professional and support employees.  The Division provides legal advice on tax issues involving banks, thrift institutions, insurance companies and products, regulated investment companies, real estate investment trusts, annuities, original issue discount obligations, tax-exempt bonds, and numerous other types of financial instruments and entities.

Prior to joining the Service, Ms. Hubbard was Vice President for Tax and Benefits and Deputy General Counsel for Fannie Mae.  From 2005 to 2010, she was an equity partner with Baker and McKenzie L.L.P.  She served as Tax Legislative Counsel with the Department of the Treasury from 2002 to 2005 and was a National Tax Partner with Ernst & Young, L.L.P from 1996 to 2002.  Previously she was a partner with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld, L.L.P and an associate with Miller and Chevalier and Johnson and Gibbs, P.C.  From 1987 to 1988, she served as law clerk for the Honorable Irving L. Goldberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  Ms. Hubbard received her J.D. magna cum laude from Southern Methodist University in 1987 and her B.B.A. from Texas Tech University in 1975.   She is a member of the Texas and District of Columbia bars and is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Texas.