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Harvey Bookstein

Harvey Bookstein is the Managing Visionary Partner for RBZ. As Managing Visionary Partner, Harvey will identify and tap into opportunities such as practice acquisition, new niche practice areas and additional office locations. Harvey is also a co-founding Partner of RBZ and has more than 35 years of public accounting experience. Throughout his entire career, Harvey has provided tax, accounting and business consulting services to clients in the real estate industry. His clients include land developers, residential and commercial builders, property managers, investors and commercial building owners, architectural firms, general contractors and construction companies. Harvey also heads up the Real Estate Services Group with one of his partners, Yunna Barats, and has invested over $300,000,000 in real estate investments. In addition, Harvey works with high-net-worth individuals and their families, and family or other closely-held businesses and specializes in estate planning, charitable giving, and dealing with financial issues relating to children, divorce and the development of strategies to pass family businesses from one generation to the next – a method he has developed and has registered as, “Therapeutic Accounting®.”

Harvey oversees a wide range of services, including entity selection and structuring, structuring and negotiating acquisitions and dispositions, pre-acquisition due diligence, debt restructuring, property repositioning strategies, foreign ownership, succession planning and tax-free exchanges. His goal is to anticipate his clients’ needs, ask the right questions, and then develop meaningful ideas and solutions that enable his clients to maintain a competitive edge.

Beyond his commitment to his clients, Harvey established the Harvey and Harriet Bookstein Chair in Taxation within CSUN’s College of Business and Economics in 2005. This endowment will also fund the Bookstein Institute for Higher Education in Taxation (Master in Taxation). In addition, Harvey currently serves as a Director for Mitos Pharmaceuticals and is on the Board of Directors for The University Corporation, California State University, Northridge, Foundation Board, and the College of Business and Economics Advisory Board. In the past, Harvey has served on the Board of Directors for The Entrepreneurship Institute, Northridge, and is a former President and Board Member of Los Angeles Telecommunications Commission, past Chairman of United Cerebral Palsy/Spastic Children’s Foundation of Greater Los Angeles/Ventura, past Board Member of Hathaway Children’s Services and Phoenix House, and was the Chairman of a local bank.

Harvey is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Harvey graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Harvey is also a graduate of Leadership Los Angeles.

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