Elena Mervine
Partner, Transaction Advisory Services – CohnReznick Advisory LLC
Elena Mervine focuses on performing buy and sell-side due diligence for private equity firms, lenders, independent sponsors, family offices, and strategic buyers and sellers. With more than 16 years of experience in finance, public accounting, and transaction diligence, she serves clients throughout the lifecycles of transactions and assesses quality of earnings, working capital, financial reporting infrastructure, profitability, and value drivers of operations.
Experience and credentials
Certified Public Accountant
Industry experience spans consumer, retail, media, technology, manufacturing, construction, business services, and emerging markets including cannabis
Helped launch the Cannabis practice in 2018 and pioneered early due diligence work in the space
Before joining the firm, worked at several Big 4 firms where she was responsible for audits of large public and private companies across several industries as well as transaction diligence of acquisition targets
Experience includes consulting as an interim CFO; assisting public companies with financial reporting, modeling, analysis, compliance, and corporate governance; and preparing and filing SEC forms and other information such as 10-Ks, 10-Qs, 8-Ks, MD&A, and S-1 registration statements
Experience working with companies in the process of going public via IPOs, reverse mergers, and PIPE transactions, as well as obtaining a listing on NASDAQ and OTCBB
Education
Sustainable Investment Professional Certification – Concordia University, John Molson School of Business
M.S., Accountancy – University of Nevada, Las Vegas
B.S., Business Administration and Finance – University of Nevada, Las Vegas
B.A., Linguistics and Intercultural Communication – State Volgograd University, Russia
Professional affiliations
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
Association for Corporate Growth
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