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David A. Kessler CPA

Partner, Commercial Real Estate Industry National Director, CohnReznick LLP

David A. Kessler is a Partner with CohnReznick and serves as the National Director of the Firm’s Commercial Real Estate Industry Practice. David has over 30 years of experience providing audit, tax, and management advisory services to the real estate and financial services industries, representing clients nationally. He represents both public and private clients, including developers, private equity funds, institutional investors such as life companies and pension funds, lenders, asset management companies, property management companies, REITs, loan funds, and hedge funds. His clients operate and develop hotels, office, multifamily, industrial, retail, nursing and assisted living, land development, military housing, and student housing units. David oversees the firm’s Commercial Real Estate practice. His practice includes audit and management advisory services, including assisting new and existing PE funds with structures, compliance, and asset or portfolio due diligence. He works with RIA’s, Fund Managers, and is proficient with real estate accounting and reporting as well as real estate operations. He frequently works with the firm’s Advisory Practice. David designed and has taught a real estate accounting graduate-level course at Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies and the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation as part of each university’s graduate degree program in real estate development. He speaks frequently at various real estate industry conferences throughout the country.


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