Laléa & Black is a boutique Beverly Hills CPA firm founded in 2013. We're structured around a single conviction: modern accounting can be sharper, more honest, and more human than the industry has settled for. Every engagement is anchored by a senior CPA, staffed domestically, and designed to compound over years. We're intentionally small — boutique by choice — because senior-CPA judgment on every file is the whole point.

We serve six client segments where senior-CPA judgment matters more than templated processing: (1) Entertainment and creative professionals — managers, agents, artists, production companies, with tour income, loan-outs, residuals, and complex K-1s. (2) Real estate operators — 1031 exchanges, partnerships, syndications, owner-operated portfolios. (3) Legal offices — solo through mid-size firms, IOLTA reconciliation, PLLC/PC compliance. (4) Family offices and high-net-worth families — multi-entity structures, trusts, private foundations, generational wealth. (5) Medical and dental practices — S-corp optimization, retirement plan design, equipment depreciation. (6) Small businesses — e-commerce, design studios, tech startups where tax optimization and growth strategy compound together.

We're a partner-led boutique. Daniel Litvin, CPA, MBA — Founder and Managing Partner — leads business management, strategic advisory, and the firm's most complex engagements. David Meyer, CPA — Tax Partner — leads the tax practice, including high-net-worth planning, cross-border returns, estate planning, QSBS and §83(b) strategy, and expatriation. Every engagement has one senior-CPA point of contact who doesn't get rotated off the account. We hire slowly, keep people long, and staff domestically — nothing you send us leaves the country.

Our office is in Beverly Hills, California, at 256 South Robertson Boulevard, Suite 206, Beverly Hills, CA 90211. Most client work happens remotely — we serve clients across California and multiple other states through secure document exchange, encrypted portals, and video meetings — but in-person meetings at the Beverly Hills office are available by appointment.

We're neither. Big-4 firms optimize for scale — pyramid staffing, hourly billing, offshored preparation, rotating juniors on your account. Solo CPAs have limited bandwidth for the complexity high-net-worth clients and closely-held businesses actually generate. We're the middle path: senior-CPA judgment on every file (like a solo), institutional rigor and modern tooling (like a Big-4), fixed-scope pricing agreed up front (unlike both), and no offshoring (unlike most large firms). It's not a complicated model. It's just uncommon.

We invest heavily in software to kill busywork so CPAs spend their time on judgment, not data entry. Our stack: QuickBooks Online for general ledger and bookkeeping, Intuit ProConnect for tax preparation, Bill.com for accounts payable and bill pay, ADP for payroll, Egnyte for encrypted document exchange, and Ramp and Brex for expense management. These tools were chosen because they talk to each other, protect client data, and let a small team do the work of a much larger one. But the tools aren't the point — judgment is. A CPA signs every deliverable.

No. Nothing a client sends us leaves the country. Not tax documents, not K-1s, not bank statements, not identity documents. Every return, every close, and every advisory memo is prepared and reviewed by a licensed CPA on staff in the United States. Full stop.