Zurab Moshashvili

Zurab Moshashvili, CPA is a Partner at Anchin with more than 10 years of public, private, and multinational experience.

Zurab specializes in providing assurance and advisory services to a wide range of privately and publicly held companies. He has served clients with varying specialties, including senior living, equity and mortgage REITs, hospitality, private equity and opportunity funds, affordable housing 80/20 projects, and owners and operators of commercial and residential real estate.

His expertise lies in working on revenue recognition, valuations, acquisitions/dispositions of real estate, business combinations, residential agency and non-agency mortgage backed securities, repurchase agreements, impairment, going concern and various types of derivative instruments. He has worked on audits and reviews of SEC filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q, as well as S-11 and annual reports of public companies, spin-off transactions, including initial Form 10 and subsequent amendment filings, and audits under S-X Regulations 3-05 and 3-14. He has been involved in numerous comfort letter procedures for secondary and continuous equity offerings. Zurab has assisted clients with the implementation of internal controls to comply with the Sarbanes Oxley Act Section 404, and COSO 2013 framework.

In addition, Zurab specializes in providing accounting and auditing services to various national and international real estate core plus, value added and opportunity funds, where he is heavily involved in valuations, carried interest calculations and foreign currency contracts. He assists emerging managers and established funds with structuring, compliance and other advisory services.

Zurab has served as an assistant vice president in the investments credit surveillance department of a publicly traded mortgage REIT. He began his career at a Big 4 accounting firm, where he served as an audit senior manager before coming to Anchin.

He has created training curriculums and taught courses related to real estate accounting and auditing methodologies. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA).