Louis Magnan

Biography

Louis Magnan is a Vice President in the Forensic Accounting – Insurance Services group at J.S. Held, a role he’s held at the firm since March 2019. Louis provides investigative accounting and litigation support services for commercial damage claims. He specializes in computing economic damages related to business interruption, builder’s risk, inventory and stock losses, extra expense, and property damage losses for insurers. Louis has worked on both domestic and international engagements related to various manufacturing operations, retail, residential, hospitality and petro-chemical businesses, marine claims, renewable power generation (i.e. wind/hydro), and service and shipping industries. He has also provided various litigation support services for attorneys, law firms, and other parties related to damage claim assessments, alternative dispute resolutions and accounting-related interrogatories.
 
Prior to joining J.S. Held, Louis worked for seven years as a forensic accounting professional at Magnan Graizzaro & Associates CPAs, LLC (MG&A), where he became Partner. Louis previously spent four years as a financial reporting associate in the Global Real Assets division of J.P. Morgan Asset Management where he collected and analyzed financial data in the preparation of periodic financial statements for retail, residential, office, and the industrial real estate assets. Louis spent the first two years of his career at Deloitte & Touche, LLP as an audit professional in the financial services sector.
 
Louis graduated from Villanova University with a bachelor’s degree in accounting in 2005 and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He serves on the Board of Directors for the Marine and Insurance Claims Association (MICA) and is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).

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