PRACTICE AREA
Management Leadership
Business management, tax strategy, and long-term financial partnership for entertainment professionals, high-net-worth families, and the businesses they build.
About Daniel
Daniel founded Laléa & Black in 2013 to build the kind of firm he wished he’d been able to hire himself: small enough to know every client personally, technically deep enough to handle sophisticated work in-house, and structurally committed to never outsourcing client data overseas.
Twelve years later, that thesis has held. Daniel’s personal book focuses on entertainment industry professionals, complex partnerships, and multi-generational HNW families. His work spans traditional CPA services — tax planning, entity structuring, family office coordination — but on any given day he’s more likely to be reviewing a client’s books alongside their wealth manager, structuring a transaction with outside counsel, or explaining a tax law change over the phone in language that actually helps someone make a decision.
Alongside client work, Daniel leads firm strategy: hiring, technology, and the discipline of staying small enough to matter.
What he handles
- Business management — full financial oversight for entertainment industry clients (bill pay, personal bookkeeping, cash flow, coordination with agents, managers, and attorneys)
- Complex tax — high-income individual planning, partnership and S-corp structuring, multi-entity families
- Trust & estate coordination — working with clients’ estate counsel on structure, funding, and ongoing reporting
- Family office services — consolidated reporting, intercompany accounting, generational planning
- Firm strategy — how Laléa & Black hires, trains, and delivers
How we work
- Every client works with a CPA — not an associate
- We do not offshore or outsource core work — your data stays in-house
- Books, tax, and business management under one roof
- Fixed monthly fees for management clients — no surprise invoices
Credentials
- Certified Public Accountant, State of California
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Member, California Society of Certified Public Accountants (CalCPA)
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