Donald Bender

Donald has over 35 years of accounting, auditing, and taxation experience in the real estate, hospitality and construction industries. He sits on the Mazars Real Estate Steering Committee where he helps guide the firm’s real estate practice, while leading the firm’s Hospitality Group and Long Island Real Estate Practice. Donald’s real estate experience includes hotels, office buildings, residential properties, mixed-use properties, residential condominiums, commercial condominiums, hospitality, hotel condominiums, and working with real estate developers and managers. He also has significant expertise in tax compliance and planning for high net-worth individuals and their investments in S-corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, in addition to consulting for acquisition of business interests and the related tax and accounting implications. Donald acts as a trusted advisor to his clients, and uses his in-depth knowledge of a client’s business and individual structure to form effective problems solving solutions on tax issues. Donald received his BA in Accounting from Queens College of the City University of New York. He is a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA) for which he serves on two committees – the Hospitality Industry Committee and the Nassau County Real Estate Committee.