Industries
The ability to quickly analyze business conditions and needs is what you should expect of industry specialists. CohnReznick has the right team for you. Deep institutional knowledge, global perspective, and comprehensive technical skills enhance our industry-centered solutions.
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- Consumer & Industrial
  
  Technology continues to transform consumer and industrial company operations– from customer relationship management to global supply chain logistics. CohnReznick helps you improve financial systems, access and leverage growth capital, and employ new business processes to drive competitive advantage for your operations and your brand.
  
  Consumer & Industrial
  
  Hospitality
  
  Manufacturing & Distribution
  
  Consumer
- Emerging Markets
  
  New industries are created when market needs are fulfilled by innovative product and services offerings. Shaped by disruptive technology, changing consumer preferences, or a shifting regulatory environment, emerging industries offer unlimited growth potential to entrepreneurial companies and investors. But success requires overcoming intense competition for funding, intellectual property, revenue growth and specialized human capital.
  
  Emerging Markets
  
  Renewable Energy
  
  Technology & New Media
  
  Life Sciences
  
  Cannabis
- Financial Sponsors & Financial Services
  
  Value creation is job one for investment management firms. To succeed, you must cultivate growth from every transaction –acquisition through exit – while addressing numerous regulatory and financial reporting requirements. From SEC compliance through advancing digital platforms to improve workflow and asset analysis, CohnReznick is your trusted advisor.
  
  Financial Sponsors & Financial Services
  
  Broker Dealers
  
  Family Offices
  
  Hedge Funds
  
  Private Equity
  
  Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs)
  
  Venture Capital
- Life Sciences & Healthcare
  
  Businesses that extend lives and improve well-being have limitless potential. They also face many financial and operational hurdles – from funding growth initiatives to keeping pace with healthcare reform. CohnReznick provides accounting, tax, and advisory services that support innovation –whether you are adapting to a new VBP model or preparing for an IPO.
  
  Life Sciences & Healthcare
  
  Life Sciences
  
  Healthcare
- Public Sector
  
  In a highly regulated industry, maintaining compliance is paramount to growth - whether conducting business with the government or fulfilling a charitable organization’s mission. CohnReznick helps you address stringent regulatory requirements, strengthen risk management, and advance the goals of your organization and the people it serves.
  
  Public Sector
  
  Government Contracting
  
  Government
  
  Not-for-Profit & Education
- Real Estate
  
  Whether commercial or residential, tax-incentivized or market rate, real estate remains a go-to industry for investors, developers, contractors, and lenders. With one of the most influential real estate practices in our industry, we help stakeholders deploy capital, leverage tax credits, structure and value portfolios, and achieve their ultimate vision for success.
  
  Real Estate
  
  Affordable Housing
  
  Commercial Real Estate
  
  Construction
  
  Opportunity Zones
  
  Tax Credits
- Renewable Energy
  
  Today's renewable energy industry is a complex and evolving landscape of growth and opportunity. Companies active in this sector face a range of financial, tax, and audit issues that can be best addressed by a firm with dedicated expertise in renewables. CohnReznick's Renewable Energy Industry Practice can help your business move forward by proactively addressing even your most complicated challenges and needs.
  
  Renewable Energy
- Technology & New Media
  
  The technology and new media industries were founded by innovative visionaries. But turning big ideas into successful businesses requires expertise– whether preparing for a capital raise, capital transaction or negotiating a complex deal structure. CohnReznick provides tax, compliance, transaction planning, and innovation services that drive growth and competitive advantage.
  
  Technology & New Media
- Private Clients
  
  Creating wealth is no easy task. But protecting and growing the wealth you’ve built may be even harder in light of complex tax and compliance laws. Combining industry-specific accounting and tax expertise, CohnReznick helps private companies and individuals alleviate tax burdens, act on business opportunities, and execute forward thinking wealth preservation and succession planning strategies.
  
  Private Clients
  
  Entertainment
  
  Law Firms
  
  Medical Practices
  
  Private Clients
Services
Audit, assurance, and tax services are fundamental to your business. They prepare you to act on opportunity, manage risk, and maintain compliance. A strong advisory partner adds intellectual bench strength to your team. CohnReznick will help you address every circumstance with discrete services or holistic integrated solutions.
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- Accounting & Assurance
  
  Turning growth and risk management strategies into actionable plans requires a sound foundation of intelligence. The integrity of your decisions depends on an independent, thorough review of your financial statements — and unbiased examination. CohnReznick’s Audit and Assurance professionals create lasting relationships based on truth and deliver comprehensive audit, attest, and accounting services held to the highest standards of excellence and independence.
  
  Accounting & Assurance
  
  Accounting Services
  
  Attest & Audit
  
  Employee Benefit Plans
- Advisory
  
  Competitive advantage is hard-fought and hard-earned. It comes by way of a dynamic, evolving state as market drivers and disruptive technologies continually move the goal. You have your eye on it and are ready to own it. CohnReznick Advisory, strategic and fiercely objective consultants, leverage a proprietary platform founded on innovation to skillfully oversee your transaction or transform the way you do business.
  
  Advisory
  
  Disaster Response & Recovery
  
  Government & Public Sector
  
  Private Clients
  
  Dispute Resolution
  
  Management Consulting
  
  Project Finance and Consulting
  
  Real Estate Advisory
  
  Restructuring & Insolvency
  
  Risk Management
  
  Solutions for Global Organizations
  
  Technology & Digital
  
  Transactions
  
  Valuation
  
  Cybersecurity
- Tax
  
  Navigating the nuances of a tax landscape in flux is key to an optimized financial position. Your confidence to operate, your resilience to risk, and your bottom-line growth are all impacted by your ability to realize appropriate tax advantages. CohnReznick Tax professionals provide exacting documentation at the transactional level and strategic value through proactive, advice-driven tax partnership.
  
  Tax
  
  Federal Tax
  
  International Tax
  
  Not-for-Profit Tax
  
  State & Local Tax
  
  Tax Credits
  
  Trusts & Estates
- Affiliated Companies
  
  Serving global, national, regional, and private concerns requires us to remain nimble and responsive to our clients’ changing needs – bringing in highly specialized capabilities to augment our advisory, assurance, and tax services. While each CohnReznick affiliated company is unique, all share our commitment to excellence and value creation.
  
  Affiliated Companies
  
  Asset Management & Insurance
  
  Risk Insurance Consulting
  
  Benefits Brokerage & Consulting
  
  Capital Markets Advisory
  
  Real Estate Brokerage
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People

Alison Galer

JD, Principal and Deputy General Counsel
Roseland, NJ

Alison Galer, JD, is a principal at CohnReznick and serves as the Firm’s Deputy General Counsel. She joined CohnReznick after having spent over two decades in private practice as a commercial litigator focusing on the various legal needs and litigation defense of accounting firms and financial institutions.

Before joining CohnReznick, Alison served as the Managing Partner of a Top 20 New Jersey-based regional law firm. She is a member of the New Jersey Bar.

Education

University of Pittsburgh: Bachelor of Science

Seton Hall University School of Law: Doctor of Law, cum laude

Professional Affiliations

New Jersey State Bar Association

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