Legal Series – IPOs: How to Do the Deal

Richard J. Salute, CPA, serves as the Firm’s Capital Markets and SEC Practice Director. As an expert with more than 35 years of experience in SEC matters, Rich has been the key accounting and finance professional in numerous initial public offerings, and has represented clients that trade securities on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ, and other over-the-counter markets.

Prior to joining J.H. Cohn, Rich spent nearly 30 years at Andersen Worldwide managing complex audits for both public and private companies. During his tenure there, he was responsible for providing clients with strategic planning services, as well as consultation with regard to corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and process evaluation. Rich’s clients included large multinational companies and entrepreneurial start ups. In addition to his client responsibilities, he started three businesses for Andersen – the Enterprise Group (New York Metropolitan area), the Technology Practice (New York office) and the Bankruptcy and Corporate Recovery Practice (nationwide).

Rich is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Rich graduated from Adelphi University, cum laude, and later taught in Adelphi University’s Master of Business Administration program.

Bob Jacobson is a principal in the risk advisory services practice and is the West region consulting leader, responsible for continuous alignment of market demands with the evolving needs of our growing clients in the West. In this role, Bob will oversee more than 100 West region consultants in the areas of risk advisory, technology and financial advisory. Bob formerly served in a variety of leadership positions within the firm, including national consulting principal and risk advisory service line leader. Bob has overseen a variety of matters related to the growth, profitability, quality, risk containment and management of the business consulting services practice across the firm. Bob joined McGladrey in 2002 as the leader of the upper Midwest economic unit’s risk advisory consulting practice, managing numerous Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), internal audit, enterprise risk management (ERM) and risk advisory clients.