Howard Friedman

Howard is a Partner in the New York office of the Transaction Services Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers specializing in providing accounting and financial reporting advisory services to our public and private clients. Those services include advice relating to acquisitions, divestitures, initial public offerings, capital markets transactions, and complex accounting and reporting issues. Howard has extensive experience advising companies through successful registrations with the SEC in connection with IPO’s and spin-offs. He spent 4 years based in London advising European based companies on SEC registrations and has spent the last 6 years based in New York where he helps our clients access the debt and equity capital markets. He frequently takes on the role of "IPO advisor" for his client, to assist them through the long and complex offering process by providing them with technical and project management advice on accounting and financial reporting issues associated with initial public offerings, 144a debt and equity offerings, divestitures and carve outs, and conversions to and from IFRS and US GAAP. Howard serves some of our largest private equity clients and has been involved in successful IPO's, spin-offs and other capital market transactions for a number of portfolio companies. He currently leads of our IPO Services efforts in New York. Specialties: Accounting and Financial Reporting; Initial Public Offerings; SEC registrations; 144A offerings; Divestitures; Carve-out's and other M&A activities.