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The EY Kenneth Leventhal Group
James Kasim has over two decades of experience as a financial executive and certified public accountant. He received an MBA from USC and spent much of his career at Ernst & Young LLP's EY Kenneth Leventhal Group as a senior manager, gaining expertise in SEC rules, real estate investment trust rules, and corporate governance. Kenneth Leventhal & Company was a highly successful international real estate accounting firm that merged with Ernst & Young LLP in the mid-1990s to form the EY Kenneth Leventhal Real Estate Group, providing benefits to both firms.
The EY Kenneth Leventhal Group
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- 2. The recipient ofa master of business administration from the University of Southern California, James Kasim has served as a financial executive and certified public accountant for more than two decades. He spent much of that period at Ernst & Young LLP's EY Kenneth Leventhal Group in the position of senior manager for advisory and assurance business services. This role bolstered James Kasim’s experience with US Securities and Exchange Commission rules and regulations, real estate investment trust rules, and corporate governance rules.
- 3. In 1995, KennethLeventhal & Company was a highly successful real estate accounting firm of international repute, founded by Kenneth Leventhal and Stan Ross. In the mid-1990s, the firm merged with Ernst & Young LLP, and the EY Kenneth Leventhal Real Estate Group came into being. The merger was of benefit to both firms. In 2010, Leventhal acknowledged that obtaining a stronger foothold internationally would have entailed great costs, while Ross praised the technical specialists whose skills became accessible through Ernst & Young. Today, the EY Kenneth Leventhal Group continues to offer its clientele a range of services, including tax and real estate accounting.