Lou Pizzileo, CPA Partner
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Louis Pizzileo is an assurance and advisory Partner at Grassi and leads the firm’s SEC & Capital Markets practice. He has over 25 years of experience serving growth-minded middle market and Fortune 500 companies.
As the leader of SEC & Capital Markets team, Lou has guided many micro, mid and small-cap companies through successful initial public offerings. He has also assisted existing public companies in regaining timely compliance with SEC reporting requirements. Recently, Lou led the IPO audit engagements for our clients Twin Vee Powercats, Forza X1, LuxUrban and Venu, which brought them to the public market.
Lou’s experience began in the Big 4 and regional public accounting firms, as well as the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). He also worked with private, owner-managed and institutionally backed companies to help them maximize enterprise value generation and improve finance, tax and operational efficiency. He provides assurance and advisory services to public and private companies within the manufacturing and distribution, technology, hospitality and specialty finance industries.
Lou assists his clients in various roles and at different stages of their life cycle, including helping an owner-managed distribution company develop a financial model for bank reporting and guiding a post-IPO client through SEC reporting requirements and the audit process.
Lou recently played a key role in assisting an owner-managed software company through a $125 million private equity recapitalization. He prepared the company via sell-side due diligence, stepped in as the interim CFO to support the buy-side due diligence, and built a reporting model post-close, later assisting in hiring a permanent CFO. Lou also recently supported a real estate technology company through a $10 million sale and a large pharmaceutical company through a $600 million sale to strategic buyers.
Lou serves on his local board of education audit committee. He was also selected as an honoree for the 2012 Long Island Business News “40 Under 40” Awards. Lou is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYCPA).
Lou graduated from Long Island University with a bachelor’s degree in accounting.