Ronald Kaplan

Partner-Commercial Real Estate Industry Leader at CohnReznick Advisory LLC

Speaker

Ronald is a Certified Public Accountant and is the Commercial Real Estate Industry Leader. Ron has more than 20years of experience providing due diligence, business advisory, and tax services to clients in the commercial,residential, retail, and hospitality sectors throughout the United States and internationally. Ron regularly providesassistance and advisory services to clients as they negotiate agreements with lenders, equity partners, and fundmanagers. In addition, he advises clients on accounting and tax matters throughout the agreement process, frominitial drafting through completion.Ron’s clients are generally private companies with multi-state operations and include real estate opportunity funds,property management firms, partnerships, contractors, institutional lenders, REITs and joint ventures, as well asother corporate and family owners and investors. Ron has a particular focus on real estate opportunity funds, withclients ranging from start-ups to established funds. His clients benefit from his experience in critical areas, such asfair value reporting, compliance monitoring, investor relations, and fund performance.Prior to joining CohnReznick, Ron was in charge of the real estate practice for the New York office of a large nationalpublic accounting firm. In this role, he oversaw the practice’s client services, account management, and teamdevelopment functions. He was also active in the firm’s training activities, leading presentations on the real estatebusiness for professionals both within the firm and at national industry conferences.