Dan Cherwin is an audit partner in Crowe’s Real Estate Industry Group. Dan has approximately twenty years of experience with SEC reporting, compliance and auditing of real estate companies, with a concentration on serving public and private REITs, private equity real estate investment funds/advisors, and real estate operating companies.

Dan counsels clients on the accounting impact of significant transactions as well as SEC reporting requirements and emerging accounting and regulatory authoritative guidance. He has extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions, fair value accounting and reporting, lease accounting, and goodwill and long-lived asset impairment accounting, among other technical topics.
Clients served include a diverse range of real estate subsectors: healthcare, office, retail, education, storage, manufactured housing, industrial, multi-family, hospitality, and triple-net leasing. Dan serves as a Crowe central region real estate subject matter expert, regularly assisting client-serving teams with real estate accounting & reporting matters. In this role, Dan also leads internal trainings and presents topical matters at external industry events.
Prior to joining Crowe, Dan was an audit partner at Grant Thornton where he grew the regional real estate practice while delivering exceptional client service. Previously, he was a senior manager in Ernst & Young’s real estate group. While at EY, Dan served the largest accounts within the Chicago practice, and also served as the Assurance Resident for the Global Real Estate Center, developing global client solutions, strengthening links among members of the global real estate practice, advising key audit accounts and representing the firm at external industry events.