Cohen & Company welcomes Brian Riordan, CPA, MST, as a managing director in the firm’s Tax Practice. Located in the Chicago office, Riordan is a seasoned professional focused on the real estate industry.
With 25 years of experience, Riordan provides tax compliance and consulting services to private equity investors, multi-tiered real estate funds, joint ventures, Qualified Opportunity Zone Funds and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). His specialized focus on REITs allows him to offer assistance in due diligence, structuring and planning in connection with tax efficient acquisitions/dispositions, REIT qualification testing and tax compliance. He has also authored numerous REIT focused articles and presented on REIT specific issues at several national conferences, including the NAREIT Conference.
Riordan joins Assurance Managing Director
Nick Antonopoulos, hired in November 2023 and also highly experienced with REITs, to help establish a comprehensive REIT assurance and tax service offering for the firm.
“REITs are an increasingly important structural alternative for many of our clients, which makes it important to us,” says Dave Sobochan, industry market leader for Cohen & Company’s Real Estate & Construction Group. “We see it almost every day as our real estate and investment industry services groups intersect on REIT projects. As a result, we have been working toward building a specialized leadership team that can focus on providing both assurance and tax services for this growing fund class. Nick and Brian are the right people to drive this initiative forward.”