Harvey Bookstein, CPA

Co-Founding Partner
RBZ, LLP 
Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
hbookstein@rbz.com

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Harvey, the Managing Visionary Partner and 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 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 firm’s Real Estate Services Group and has provided capital and mezzanine financing of over $350,000,000 for real estate investments. In addition, Harvey works with high-net-worth individuals and families 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 a registered trademark for called, “Therapeutic Accounting®.”

Harvey oversees a wide range of services which include entity selection, 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 stay ahead of their competitors in the marketplace.

Beyond his commitment to his clients, Harvey established the Harvey and Harriet Bookstein Chair in Taxation within the California State University, Northridge (CSUN) College of Business and Economics in 2005. This endowment also funds 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 CSUN Foundation, the CSUN University Corporation and the CSUN 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 California-based 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 and is a graduate of Leadership Los Angeles. In 2009, he received the prestigious “Distinguished Alumni Award” from the CSUN Alumni Association. This annual event recognizes alumni for their professional achievements and service during their careers.