Black Oak Associates

Black Oak is a property development and investment management company. Based in the Mid-Atlantic region, the business owns and manages approximately two million square feet of property.

Dara Hewat, a partner at Black Oak, relies on Gross Mendelsohn for financial statement audit and tax services.

“One thing I enjoy about working with Gross Mendelsohn is the reliability of the firm’s people. We’ve worked with Jonathan Lovell and Steve Ball for many years. They always get back to me. They know the business well and I don’t have to explain things every year for my audit or tax returns. With the state tax landscape getting more complicated than ever in recent years, they’ve kept our business straight with their solid tax knowledge.

Also, one of my company’s key deliverables for our investors is to issue K-1s on time. Gross Mendelsohn helps support that, which in turn helps us support our investors.

Before hiring Gross Mendelsohn, we were with an international CPA firm that increased fees pretty dramatically from year to year. Jonathan and Steve strive to keep our fees reasonable, and we still enjoy a high level of expertise and competence. There’s a lot of appeal to working with a local accounting firm.”

— Dara Hewat, Partner