Shweta Desai

Shweta has over 17 years of experience working on a wide range of clients in the financial services industry. She has been consistently recognized for leading effective and efficient audits and building strong client relationships with management and audit committees. Her technical skills, project management skills and ability to collaborate with clients has been a significant contributor to not just creating, but also maintaining strong client relationships over time.
She has focused on public and privately held financial services clients including mortgage REITs, specialty lenders, banks, broker dealers and credit funds. Her specialty lending clients include real estate lenders, credit card originators, leasing companies and payday lenders. Shweta has significant hands-on experience related to complex accounting matters related to fair value, consolidations, VIEs and internal control testing.
She has also worked on several public and private offerings throughout her career. Additionally, she has wide ranging experience on technical accounting matters related to loans, valuations, securitizations, and investments.
She is based in San Francisco and is currently the lead partner on a large accelerated publicly traded mortgage REIT as well as several large privately held companies throughout the West Region.
Shweta also leads the Shared service integration for the West Region and is an active leader in the Firm’s Diversity and Inclusion programs.