|
With nearly 50 years of experience working with privately owned and publicly held companies worldwide, Victor has played a vital role in helping to develop the Firm s Los Angeles office. Since 1990, Victor has been involved in more than 30 initial and secondary public offerings, raising $3-15 million each. In addition, he regularly assists companies with accounting issues relating to private offerings and reverse mergers, corporate reorganizations and acquisitions, and other fund raising and regulatory matters. Victor began his public accounting career in 1954 at Joseph S. Herbert & Co. a prominent New York accounting firm. He has specialized in securities and merger and acquisition matters since 1962; at the firm, he started Berger, Turner & Hollander. At this firm Berger, Turner, & Hollander, he was the audit partner of the first Los Angeles ladies dress manufacturer to go public. In 1966, he joined a prominent New York accounting firm Brout & Company and opened their offices in Los Angeles. During this time, he was a partner on many Public Companies listed on the New York and American Stock Exchange. In 1975, he joined an international public accounting firm as the firm s Senior Securities Partner Lester Witte In 1978 he formed his own successful practice Hollander, Gilbert & Company. It was this practice that Victor merged as Managing Director, West Coast Group, with Weinberg & Company to better service his own clientele and be able to more broadly offer his expertise to an international client base. Victor attended the University of Illinois and University of California Los Angeles and, after completion of his military service, he graduated from California State University at Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting. He has served on the Securities, Ethics and Accounting and Auditing Committees of various organizations, including the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and California State Society of Certified Public Accountants. Victor is extremely active in numerous local, state, and national professional organizations. | 