Jeff specializes in Assurance and Transaction Advisory Services, with more than 20 years of experience advising institutional investors, private equity groups, family offices, investment banks, and privately held businesses. His practice combines deep technical accounting and financial reporting expertise with transaction-focused advisory experience, supporting clients across the investment and transaction lifecycle.
REAL ESTATE:
Jeff has significant experience working with institutional, private equity, and family office real estate investors across a broad range of asset classes. His expertise includes GAAP financial reporting under historical cost and fair value frameworks, real estate funds, complex multi-entity consolidations, accounting policy development, and the design and optimization of accounting processes and procedures.
He also provide real estate consulting and transaction support, including buy-side financial due diligence, development of buy-side due diligence processes, commercial lease review, CAM audits, and advisory services surrounding complex accounting and reporting matters. This combination of accounting, reporting, and transaction experience allows Jeff to help real estate investors evaluate both the financial reporting implications and underlying economics of an investment.
TRANSACTION ADVISORY SERVICES:
As a Transaction Advisory Services Partner, Jeff provides buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence and advisory services to private equity groups, family offices, investment banks, and founder-owned businesses in the middle and lower-middle market. His transaction experience spans manufacturing, distribution, construction and contracting, professional services, healthcare, retail, telecom, and food & beverage.
Engagements include quality of earnings, financial due diligence, analysis of historical and normalized financial performance, working capital analysis and consulting, working capital negotiations, and transaction-related financial analysis.
He focuses on translating complex financial information into clear, actionable insights that help investors, owners, and transaction professionals make informed decisions, and brings a combination of technical accounting expertise, transaction experience, and commercial perspective to complex financial and investment decisions.
Years of Experience
24
Education
University of Georgia, Bachelor’s
Professional & Civic Leadership
- Treasurer for The MDE School
- Audit Committee for the JCC of Greater Atlanta
Professional Credentials
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Awards
Employee of the month at Kmart in June 1997
I am a Green Egg junkie…I consider cooking on it to be a therapeutic event.
SERVICE SPECIALTIES
INSIGHTS FROM Jeff Silver
EVENTS WITH Jeff Silver
- May 15
2025Virtual
Jeff Silver AROUND TOWN
CFMA Southeastern Construction Conference 2025
On August 21, 2025, CRI’s Jeff Silver and Jeff Hawkins presented at the CFMA Southeastern Construction Conference in Chattanooga. Their session focused on the due diligence process, the importance of a Quality of Earnings report, and how working capital can affect the sale of a business.


