Purchase Price Disputes - Director

As CohnReznick grows, so do our career opportunities. As one of the nation’s top professional services firms, CohnReznick creates rewarding careers in advisory, assurance, and tax with team members who value innovation and collaboration. The firm helps organizations optimize performance, manage risk, and maximize value through CohnReznick LLP (assurance services) and CohnReznick Advisory LLC (advisory and tax services). Together, the firm provides leaders with deep industry knowledge and relationships, solutions to address clients’ unique business goals and risks, and insight on how emerging market forces can drive opportunity. With offices nationwide, the firm serves organizations around the world as an independent member of Nexia.

About the Role

We are seeking a senior leader to build and lead our Purchase Price Disputes practice, focused on advising clients in post-closing purchase price adjustment disputes and serving as an independent neutral accountant in connection with M&A-related disputes. This role will lead engagements involving working capital adjustments, indebtedness disputes, cash and transaction expense disputes, earn-outs, GAAP and accounting policy interpretation issues, and other matters arising from purchase agreements and related transaction documents. The ideal candidate combines deep transaction accounting expertise with strong dispute resolution judgment, commercial awareness, and the ability to act as an independent and credible decision-maker in contentious matters.

This position is considered remote, meaning it does not require job duties to be performed within proximity of a CohnReznick office location. However, as a remote employee, you may be required to be present at a CohnReznick office with scheduled notice for client work, team meetings, or trainings.

Your Team

This position will support our Restructuring & Dispute Resolution group, which provides a wide suite of services to clients, offering the opportunity to learn, grow, and build out your skills. As a member of this team, you’ll interact with team members across all levels within the practice.

Why CohnReznick?

At CohnReznick, we’re united by a common mission to create opportunity, value, and trust for our clients, our people, and our communities. We believe in balancing work with everyday life and making time for enjoyment and fun. Our Total Rewards package includes generous PTO, a flexible work environment, expanded and inclusive parental benefits, extensive learning & development, and paid time off for employees to volunteer.

Responsibilities

• Practice Leadership & Business Development
  • Build and lead the firm’s Purchase Price Disputes and Independent Expert practice.
  • Develop relationships with private equity firms, strategic acquirers, law firms, investment banks, and transaction advisory professionals.
  • Identify and originate new engagements involving post-closing disputes, purchase price adjustment mechanisms, and accounting-related transaction disputes.
  • Collaborate with Transaction Advisory, FDD, valuation, restructuring, and litigation support teams across the firm.
  • Develop practice methodologies, templates, and thought leadership relating to purchase price adjustment disputes and dispute resolution mechanisms.
• Client Advisory Services
  • Advise buyers and sellers in disputes relating to:
    • Cash and indebtedness
    • Transaction expenses
    • Revenue recognition
    • Inventory valuation
    • Reserve methodologies
    • Deferred revenue
    • EBITDA and earn-out calculations
    • GAAP and accounting principal interpretation
    • Consistency with past practice
  • Analyze SPAs and related transaction documents to assess accounting and dispute implications.
  • Prepare expert-style analyses, position papers, rebuttal reports, and settlement support materials.
  • Lead negotiations and accounting discussions between counterparties and counsel.
• Independent Neutral / Expert Determination Role
  • Serve as an independent accountant or neutral expert pursuant to dispute resolution provisions in purchase agreements.
  • Evaluate submissions from both parties and issue independent determinations on disputed accounting and purchase price adjustment matters.
  • Maintain strict independence, objectivity, and procedural fairness in all neutral engagements.
  • Manage dispute processes, hearing procedures, timelines, and written determinations.
  • Assess disputed items within the scope of the SPA and applicable accounting framework.
• Team Leadership
  • Recruit, mentor, and develop professionals within the disputes and transaction accounting practice.
  • Provide technical oversight and quality review of engagement deliverables.
  • Support training initiatives relating to purchase agreements, accounting principles, and dispute resolution methodologies.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in transaction advisory, transaction accounting, disputes, audit, or related financial consulting.
• Significant experience analyzing purchase agreements and post-closing adjustment mechanisms.
• Demonstrated experience resolving disputes relating to working capital, debt, cash, transaction expenses, earn-outs, and accounting policy application.
• Experience serving as an independent accountant, neutral expert, arbitrator support, or expert witness is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and transaction accounting concepts.
• Existing relationships within the private equity, legal, and M&A community preferred.
• Deep understanding of:
  • Purchase price adjustments mechanisms
  • Locked box and closing accounts structures
  • GAAP and consistency of application
  • Financial statement analysis
  • Accounting policy interpretation
  • EBITDA and earn-out mechanics
• Ability to interpret complex contractual accounting provisions and dispute resolution clauses.
• Strong written communication and report drafting skills.
• CPA strongly preferred.
• CFA, ABV, CFF, or other dispute/accounting credentials a plus.

Pay

In New York, the salary range for a Director/Managing Director is $200,000 to $350,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, and location, and applicable employment laws. Salary is one component of the CohnReznick total rewards package, which also includes a discretionary performance bonus, generous paid time off, expanded and inclusive parental benefits, and access to best-in-class learning and development platforms.

Benefits

• Discretionary performance bonus
• Generous paid time off
• Flexible work environment
• Expanded and inclusive parental benefits
• Paid time off for volunteering
• Best-in-class learning and development platforms