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Current business clients include Walgreens/Option Care, Inc., a public company providing specialty pharmacy and home infusion services, a McDonald’s Corporation related distributor/supplier and premium procurer (The HAVI Group LP), a chain of radio station partnerships (Trumper Communications), a steel wool and soap pad producer (Global Material Technologies), the largest US futures clearing firm (RJ O’Brien) and the one of the largest provider of optical pharmaceuticals (Akorn). Prior consulting arrangements included The Chicago Sun-Times, Aramark, Goss Graphic Systems, StanleyTools/National Manufacturing, Dynagear, PSAV, and Champion Parts. Heinz & Associates also has over 400 individual clients, with approximately one-fourth of those clients involved in closely held businesses. Many of these clients are currently involved in various acquisitions and dispositions of business components.Heinz & Associates is currently handling the first IRS Compliance Assurance Program (CAP) case with a private company in the US.

RICHARD J. HEINZCPA, MS TaxRichard J. Heinz is a Certified Public Accountant and owner of the Public Accounting, Tax and Financial Planning Services firm of Heinz & Associates.Rick holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Indiana University (1978, graduating with high honors) and a master's degree in taxation from DePaul University in Chicago in 1981. He is currently a member of the Illinois CPA Society and the AICPA. Prior to establishing Heinz & Associates in June 1991, Rick's experience included over thirteen years of tax management consulting and technical responsibilities with major corporations (Sara Lee Corporation and Alberto-Culver Company) and an international public accounting firm (PriceWaterhouseCoopers). He has extensive experience in developing creative tax planning strategies for corporations and their executives. Numerous diverse tax compliance and consulting engagements resulted in significant permanent tax savings for clients.

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Prior to establishing Heinz & Associates in June 1991, Rick's experience included over thirteen years of tax management consulting and technical responsibilities with major corporations (Sara Lee Corporation and Alberto-Culver Company) and an international public accounting firm (PriceWaterhouseCoopers). He has extensive experience in developing creative tax planning strategies for corporations and their executives. Numerous diverse tax compliance and consulting engagements resulted in significant permanent tax savings for clients. While at PWC, he was part of the national mergers and acquisitions team and litigation, bankruptcy /reorganization team

Federal and state tax compliance and planning for various corporate subsidiaries of the Sara Lee Corporation. Worked with the legal department on many mergers and acquisitions during my two years at the Company.