Dane provides strategic tax consulting and compliance services to clients in the private equity and real estate industry sectors, as well as hedge funds, venture capital and fund to funds organizations. Dane addresses complex partnership taxation issues including partnership allocations, waterfall calculations, and management company tax-related issues. Dane’s private equity client experience includes serving start-up firms with simple structuring and compliance requirements, to internationally recognize private equity firms with complex structuring needs and compliance requirements. He has served many leading hedge funds throughout his career and is well-versed in aggregating hedge funds allocations, analyzing securities portfolios, carried interest calculations, among other related issues.
Dane began his career in public accounting at Arthur Andersen and was also with EY. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is a graduate of the University of San Francisco and has a bachelor’s degree in accounting.