Ernest D. Miranda

Area of Focus
Ernest Miranda is Partner in charge of Squar Milner’s Audit and Assurance Services Department. He has over 25 years of experience providing audit/assurance services to SEC/publicly and privately held clients in the real estate, hospitality, construction and financial services and technology sectors and has extensive experience providing management and business advisory, due diligence and restructuring services.

Business Experience
Ernest’s clients include service companies and consumer products, technology, real estate and financial services clients. His experience, in addition to audits and reviews, includes a multitude of advisory assignments including capital formation, IPOs, secondary offerings and private placements, mergers and due diligence, underwriting, development of business plans, controls evaluation, mortgage securitization, best practice diagnostics, litigation support, financial restructurings and bankruptcy.

Ernest leads the Sarbanes-Oxley services practice area for Squar Milner. Since joining Squar Milner in May 2004 and has been a major contributor in the development of Squar Milner’s methodology and framework around the internal control requirements for Sections’ 302 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

On the corporate side, Ernest has been involved with synthetic leases, sale-leasebacks, litigation support, financial restructurings and bankruptcy. Internationally, he assisted two of Mexico ’s largest banks package, arrange, market and sell portfolios of real estate loans collateralized by real estate properties.

Prior to Squar Milner, Ernest was a partner with Grant Thornton LLP for several years leading one of its industry groups in Southern California and served 14 years at Ernst & Young LLP. He was also a controller for a mid-cap bank holding company group for three years.

Professional License and Accreditation
• Certified Public Accountant, California, Texas
• Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Member, California Society of Certified Public Accountants

Education
• Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration, University of Texas