Michael Kressig is a partner in the St. Louis office of Novogradac, where he specializes in the opportunity zones (OZ) incentive, the historic rehabilitation tax credit, the new markets tax credit and the low-income housing credit. He has more than 25 years of public accounting and business advisory experience, including extensive experience assisting developer, syndicator, community development entity and investor clients with complex financial, syndication and investment structuring, including the use of tax-incentivized financing. His consulting expertise includes financial modeling and projections, deal structuring and related services. His OZ expertise includes fund structuring, financial modeling and projections, developing compliance due diligence and asset management policies and procedures, and evaluating and structuring real estate and operating business portfolio investments with consideration toward OZ requirements. Mr. Kressig also works extensively with real estate partnership and compliance audits and advises clients on accounting, tax and regulatory issues. He is a frequent contributor to the Novogradac Journal of Tax Credits and a regular speaker at industry events. Before joining Novogradac in 2012, Mr. Kressig directed the assurance services and real estate services practice groups at Sabino & Company. Mr. Kressig also served as a senior manager with Deloitte LLP, where he specialized in the financial services industry as well as merger and acquisition consulting and due diligence. Mr. Kressig received a bachelor’s degree in business administration, majoring in accounting, from Rockhurst University. He is licensed in Missouri as a certified public accountant.