The NCAFP Honors the Life and Friendship of Richard Howe, Esq.
Richard Howe, Esq.
April 7, 2026
The NCAFP honors the life and friendship of Richard Howe, Esq.
Mr. Howe was a long-standing supporter and an integral part of the NCAFP community. He served on the NCAFP Board of Trustees for many years as the Executive Vice President, Treasurer, and Member of the Executive Committee. Aside from his generous counsel on the Board, he was an active participant in the NCAFP’s programmatic work and supporter of our annual gala and other fundraising events. Mr. Howe will be remembered for his honesty, accessibility, spirited intellect, and ethical leadership.
We are honored by his friendship and support over the years. He was a strong member of the NCAFP leadership and will be missed by all of us.
Richard Howe, Esq., was a lawyer at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York, specializing in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and financial institutions. His practice included international transactions in which he represented clients in negotiations with foreign governments, including Liberia, Guinea, Turkey, Jordan, Haiti, China, Australia and Indonesia, among others.
Mr. Howe was Chair of the New York State Bar Association Business Law Section in 1992-1993 and was a co-founder of the Soviet-American Banking Law Working Group (SABLAW) which presented a conference on Banking in a Market Economy in Moscow in May 1992. SABLAW wrote a book on the basics of banking that was translated into Russian, printed by the Russian Central Bank and distributed to law and business schools in Russia. In 1993, Mr. Howe participated in a similar conference in Mongolia.
Mr. Howe participated in the NCAFP’s trips to Kazakhstan in 2005 and 2007 and in NCAFP projects involving U.S.-China relations, Cross-Strait relations, the Korean peninsula and U.S.-Japan relations.
In addition to continuing to practice law, Mr. Howe served on Bar Association committees dealing with legal opinions, was President and a director of Peoples’ Symphony Concerts of New York City and was a member of The Corporation of Yaddo of Saratoga Springs, New York.
Mr. Howe graduated Yale University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1964) and Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 1967).