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Family Office Services
At Prager Metis, we act as the family office “quarterback” to ensure that all family policies and decisions are enacted and continually maintained. We believe in total transparency and communication with all family members. We understand the need for privacy and will be extremely cognizant of this in all communications with you and various team members.
Our goal is to become your most trusted advisor so that you feel comfortable coming to us first for advice and counsel. With Prager Metis, you will only deal directly and continually with the same senior partner and your team. This allows trust and knowledge to grow between both parties and allows us to become fully immersed in your family groups. We are very confident in our firms’ approach, as we have almost 100 years of experience in providing these services.
Services Include:- Bank and credit reconciliations
- Cash flow planning and projections
- Compliance, planning and structuring to minimize tax liabilities
- Consolidated reporting and tracking of all investment assets
- Concierge services
- Consolidated reporting and tracking of all investment assets
- Coordination of wealth transfer process
- Financial report preparation, analysis, and review
- Life and disability insurance consulting
- Payroll administration
- Risk management
- Succession planning
- Trust and estate administration and planning
- Wealth preservation and distribution strategies
Ladidas Lumpkins
CPA, JD, LL.M.
Partner-in-Charge of Private Wealth Services
- 212.643.0099 / Ext. 10346
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Profit Participation
Examination
While entertainment industry contracts can be extremely complex, they are often signed without a true understanding of the potential cost to your client. The underlying transactions and calculations can lead to potential underpayment. Prager Metis specializes in calculating all participations due and calculating all entitlements. We have worked very closely with clients in all walks of the entertainment field including music recording and publishing, television, motion pictures, and theater, merchandising, video games, and book publishing.
All profit participation examinations are monitored by the firm’s most senior staff members, many of whom have specialized solely in these examinations and have worked on these types of engagements for over a quarter-century.
Services Include:- Complimentary Consultation
- Settlement Consultation
- Contract Negotiation
- Profit Participation Examinations
- Contract and License Analysis
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Profit ParticipationExamination While entertainment industry contracts can be extremely complex, they are often signed without a true understanding of the potential cost to your client. The underlying...
Divorce Mediation
We understand that the decision and process to proceed with a divorce is a difficult one. Our divorce mediators will help you through this difficult time with a unique combination of compassion and expertise.
At Prager Metis, our Certified Divorce Mediator will work closely with attorneys and the courts in all financial aspects associated with the divorce. Our team has the accreditations and expertise to help you determine any undisclosed assets or hidden income ensuring that there is a fair financial outcome.
Services Include:- Financial Affidavit Preparation
- Asset or Business Valuation
- Expert Testimony
- Financial Forensic Analysis
- Tax Compliance and Planning
- Valuation of Enhanced Earning Capabilities
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Divorce Mediation We understand that the decision and process to proceed with a divorce is a difficult one. Our divorce mediators will help you through this difficult time with a unique combination of...
Copyright &
Intellectual Property
Valuations
Copyright and intellectual property valuation and audits requires a unique kind of business precision. The appraisal of a property or enterprise can have an enormous impact on the outcome of ownership, as well as estates, gifts, sales, and their related taxes.
Prager Metis applies its experience — in research, business management, taxation, and profit participation and royalty auditing — to determine value as precisely as possible. The firm is particularly proficient in assessing music copyrights: protecting owners of both classic and contemporary material.
Services Include:- Data Analysis
- Property Definition
- Valuation Definition
- Report Preparation
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Copyright &Intellectual PropertyValuations Copyright and intellectual property valuation and audits requires a unique kind of business precision. The appraisal of a property or enterprise can have...
Business Valuations
If you own a business, want to protect your wealth, or determine how much an asset is worth, you will need professional valuation services. Prager Metis’ business valuation team works closely with clients council and other professionals on the following:
Services include:- Assist with selling your business
- Determine the value of assets and liabilities for a divorce settlement
- Obtain financing from a lender for the purchase of a business
- Assist attorneys in litigation
- Plan for a merger, acquisition, or stock offering
- Develop an estate or tax plan to protect your wealth
- Create a succession plan
- File an insurance claim
- Set up an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
Our valuation services experience includes professional practices (accounting, legal, medical, dental, veterinarian), manufacturing companies, distribution companies, manufacturing and processing industries, machinery and consumer products and high tech, garment industries, retail establishments, bakeries, pharmacies, plumbing and heating, printing, real estate, and business brokerage and professional practices, just to name a few.
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Business Valuations If you own a business, want to protect your wealth, or determine how much an asset is worth, you will need professional valuation services. Prager Metis’ business valuation team ...
Royalty
Administration
We understand the complexities and varying rates for music publishing royalties. Prager and Fenton has decades of experience providing songwriters and the music publishing companies the full services of an in-house royalty department.
We can file copyright forms, register songs with performing rights organizations, issue music licenses and maintain a full database of rate information. This will all help you focus on the music you love and not worry about the intricacies of the royalties.
Services Include:- Contract Negotiation Consulting
- Due Diligence / Rights Valuation
- Independent Record Label Administration
- Litigation Services
- Music Publishing Administration
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RoyaltyAdministration We understand the complexities and varying rates for music publishing royalties. Prager and Fenton has decades of experience providing songwriters and the music publishing compan...
Tour Accounting
Tour accounting requires an exceptional type of expertise: business, accounting, and recording industry savvy, combined with the ability to manage relationships with vendors and venues around the globe. For over 30 years, Metis has provided this service for music-industry icons and promising new artists. What’s more, the firm has maintained many of these relationships for decades.
When clients hit the road, Prager Metis goes too — providing expert tour accountants in the office and, when needed, on the bus. Customized services minimize costs, maximize profits, and create the ultimate confidence: freeing clients to stay focused on the stage, instead of behind the scenes.
Services Include:- Budgeting
- Cash Management
- Contracts and Negotiations
- Insurance Evaluation
- Financial Controls
- Financial
- Revenue Procurement
- Executive & Entertainer Business Management
- Royalty Administration
- Royalty Audit & Contract Compliance
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Tour Accounting Tour accounting requires an exceptional type of expertise: business, accounting, and recording industry savvy, combined with the ability to manage relationships with vendors and venues...
Executive & Entertainer
Business Management
Prager Metis has been working with executive and entertainers for almost 100 years. Our business management experts set the standard — creating and implementing proactive strategies that support clients and their assets all around the world.
We understand the complexities and challenges of your business as well as the need for discretion when working with executive and entertainers. We will work closely with you and your team to understand your needs. Our services can range from bookkeeping to banking, negotiating new contracts to reviewing royalties, and multistate tax planning to planning pensions.
Services Include:- Financial Activity Coordination
- Tax and Financial Planning
- Investment Policy Oversight
- Insurance, Pension, and Retirement Planning
- Revenue Procurement
- Profit Participation and Royalty Auditing
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Executive & EntertainerBusiness Management Prager Metis has been working with executive and entertainers for almost 100 years. Our business management experts set the standard — creating and imp...
Bankruptcy
The Bankruptcy & Restructuring group at Prager Metis has extensive experience representing Chapter 7 and 11 Trustees, Debtors, Debtors-in-Possession, and creditors in all matters related to bankruptcy proceedings.
Our team has represented clients before the Bankruptcy Courts in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York as well as the District of New Jersey, as well as representing Creditor Committees in Chapter 11 cases. Additionally, members of our team frequently testify as an expert witnesses relating to insolvency, fraudulent conveyance and related bankruptcy issues.
Services Include:- Accounting for bankruptcy estates
- Forensic investigations
- Pre-bankruptcy planning
- State and local tax compliance
- IRS and state government representation
- Corporate restructuring
- Capital Allowance
- CFO Advisory Services
- Cost Segregation (US)
- Crisis Management
- Esg Services Growing Your World
- Financial Due Diligence
- Forensic and Dispute Advisory Services
- IC-DISC (US)
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Public Companies
- PPP Loan Forgiveness
- Real & Personal Property
- Research Tax Incentives
- Risk Advisory Services
- Valuation & Examination Services
Corey H. Neubauer, CPA
Partner
- 201.342.7753 / Ext. 11408
Brian A. Serotta, CPA
Principal Emeritus
- 201.342.7753 / Ext. 11407
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Bankruptcy The Bankruptcy & Restructuring group at Prager Metis has extensive experience representing Chapter 7 and 11 Trustees, Debtors, Debtors-in-Possession, and creditors in all matters relate...
Valuation &
Examination Services
There are many reasons you may need to know how much your assets are worth. Our experts will help you determine the value of your assets as well as help you determine if you are being properly compensated for your assets.
Services include: Submit RFP Here Related Services- Bankruptcy
- Capital Allowance
- CFO Advisory Services
- Cost Segregation (US)
- Crisis Management
- Financial Due Diligence
- Forensic and Dispute Advisory Services
- IC-DISC (US)
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Public Companies
- PPP Loan Forgiveness
- Real & Personal Property
- Research Tax Incentives
- Risk Advisory Services
Olga Danilytcheva-Averin
CPA/ABV/CFF, CFE
Partner
- 516.576.0555 / Ext. 10502
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Valuation &Examination Services There are many reasons you may need to know how much your assets are worth. Our experts will help you determine the value of your assets as well as help you determi...
State & Local
Tax (SALT)
State and local tax is a rapidly changing and evolving area. You need a true expert on your team to help navigate these complex waters and ensure that you are receiving the maximum benefit. At Prager Metis we have dedicated state and local tax (SALT) expertise, with a thorough understanding of local regulations, trends, and developments and will provide in-depth multi-state consulting.
Income and Franchise Tax- Audit defense and controversy assistance
- Refund reviews
- Nexus studies and multi-state tax planning
- Voluntary disclosure agreements
- Audit defense and refund reviews
- Specialized bankruptcy support
- Voluntary disclosure agreements
- Assistance with advisory rulings and letters
- Tax matrix design and reviews
- Technology consulting
- Use tax compliance assistance
- Personal and real property tax appeals
- Audit defense
- Personal property tax compliance
- Voluntary disclosure agreements and audit defense
- Assist in establishing internal processes
- Review company strategy to identify opportunities
- Assist with annual filings
- Negotiate state and local incentives based on the opportunities
- Client Accounting Services (CAS)
- Tax for Business
- Tax for Individuals
- Private Wealth
- Tax Controversy
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State & LocalTax (SALT) State and local tax is a rapidly changing and evolving area. You need a true expert on your team to help navigate these complex waters and ensure that you are receiving the...
Specialized Attest
Engagements
Dawn M. Bergen, CPA
Partner-in-Charge - Audit Services
- 212.643.0099 / Ext. 10245
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Specialized AttestEngagements Special reports or agreed upon procedures reports can help you to focus on what you specifically want to take a closer look at. They can help provide you with assurance o...
Risk Advisory Services
At Prager Metis, we understand that you need more than just number crunching and reports. Our Risk Advisory experts offer a variety of services that will help enhance your future.
Our Risk Advisory teams help navigate through the challenges surrounding governance, risk and compliance. Our team is comprised of highly trained professionals with extensive business and industry expertise, technical acumen, and the ability to identify and apply best practices. We combine process and system benchmarking experience with organizational knowledge.
We are the right size, offer the best people and deliver top-tier solutions.
Services include:- Outsourced internal audit and technology audit services
- SOC 1 and 2 readiness reviews and attestations
- SOC for Cybersecurity readiness reviews and attestations
- SOX 404 advisory, compliance and testing
- Internal control risk assessments
- Surprise custody examinations
- AT-601 examination of controls at qualified custodians
- SEC and CFO advisory services
- IT-GCC assessments and evaluations
- Agreed-upon procedures
- Financial forecasts and projections
- Compliance examinations
- GDPR gap analysis and assessments
- Cybersecurity risk assessments, scanning and training
- Vulnerability and penetration testing
- 24/7 threat monitoring, threat hunting and threat analysis
- Incident response, forensic analysis and remediation
- Bankruptcy
- Capital Allowance
- CFO Advisory Services
- Cost Segregation (US)
- Crisis Management
- Financial Due Diligence
- Forensic and Dispute Advisory Services
- IC-DISC (US)
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Public Companies
- PPP Loan Forgiveness
- Real & Personal Property
- Research Tax Incentives
- Valuation & Examination Services
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Risk Advisory Services At Prager Metis, we understand that you need more than just number crunching and reports. Our Risk Advisory experts offer a variety of services that will help enhance your futur...