Alison R. Weinberg-Fahey, Associate & Director, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP to Speak at the Knowledge Group’s The Road to Lease Accounting

The Knowledge Group, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced today that Alison R. Weinberg-Fahey, Associate & Director, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP will speak at its webcast entitled, “The Road to Lease Accounting Implementation: Practical Tips and Strategies to Ensure You’re Compliant LIVE Webcast.” End Quote

(1888PressRelease) January 26, 2021 - This event is scheduled for Thursday, February 4, 2021 from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM (ET).

For further details, please visit: https://www.theknowledgegroup.org/webcasts/road-to-lease-accounting-implementation/

About Alison R. Weinberg-Fahey
Alison is an associate in Manatt Real Estate and a director in Manatt Real Estate Advisors located in the firm’s Los Angeles office. She focuses her practice on commercial real estate transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions, development, joint ventures, construction, secured loans, and workouts. She also advises and represents property owners, developers, tenants, lenders and investors in retail, office, hospitality, aviation and multifamily projects. As a director in Manatt Real Estate Advisors, Alison represents clients in listings and acquiring properties, and in an advisory capacity including with respect to brokerage rules and regulations.

Before joining Manatt, Alison was an associate in the real estate and environmental practice groups for a large technology and life sciences law firm in Palo Alto. She focused her work on negotiating and drafting commercial leases and subleases, counseling corporate clients on real estate issues arising from commercial leasing and mergers and acquisitions, and also renewable energy and clean technology financing projects.

Alison also acted as associate general counsel for a boutique investment bank and financial advisory firm focused on higher education and municipal finance in San Francisco. Her commercial transactional projects included managing the sale and auction of a Florida orange grove investment.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Alison worked as an auditor at a Big 4 accounting firm in New York City on a team for AIG Financial Products in Wilton, Connecticut, during the 2008 financial crisis.

About Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Manatt is a multidisciplinary, integrated, national professional services firm known for quality and an extraordinary commitment to clients. We are keenly focused on specific industry sectors, providing legal and consulting capabilities at the very highest levels to achieve our clients’ business objectives. Our groundbreaking approach—bringing together legal services, advocacy and business strategy—differentiates us from our competitors and positions us to provide a unique and compelling value proposition. We strive to be essential to our clients. From our roots in banking, entertainment and government, we work with clients from industries as diverse as healthcare, financial services, media, technology, retail and consumer products, real estate, and energy. Our practice mix and deep understanding of the industries that drive the U.S. and global economies benefit clients as we resolve complex and potentially enterprise-threatening disputes, help finance their operations and expand their businesses, and navigate the maze of law and regulation governing virtually all commercial activity. Our strong presence in America’s most important business markets enables us to address and exceed client expectations. Our largest offices are strategically located in Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Orange County, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Boston. Our state capital offices in Sacramento and Albany provide connections to government decision makers and to solutions that are unavailable from our competitors.

Event Synopsis:
For most public companies, the adoption deadline for Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB’s) Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) has already passed. Their focus now shifts from adoption to quarterly reporting under the new lease accounting standard. Private companies, however, are still preparing for their implementation of the new ASC 842 leases and should learn from public companies’ experience.

Whether your company has moved past its deadline crunch or is still approaching its implementation date, it should have a more comprehensive approach that satisfies compliance needs. The ASC 842 can dramatically impact your company’s business with all the leases placed on your balance sheet. A lease accounting compliance strategy that also allows you to provide efficiencies for other systems is a must.

In this LIVE CLE Webcast, accounting expert Stephen G. Austin (Swenson Advisors, LLP) and real estate attorney Alison R. Weinberg-Fahey (Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP) will provide an in-depth analysis of the implications of the new guidance in ASC 842. Speakers will also provide the best lease accounting implementation strategies and compliance practices to help you ensure that your company remains compliant in the future.

Some of the major topics that will be covered in this course are:
- The New Lease Accounting Standard: Sweeping Implications
- Takeaways from Public Company ASC 842 Leases Implementation
- Best Compliance Practices
- Implementing ASC 842 Technology Solution
- Improvement Opportunities

About The Knowledge Group
Founded in November 2006, The Knowledge Group has been at the forefront of providing quality continuing education programs for lawyers, accountants, financial executives, risk and compliance specialists, human resources professionals, technology officers, and business consultants in a wide range of industries.

The Knowledge Group strives to be the best-in-class provider of continuing education by bringing forth relevant content you can’t get anywhere else. To contact or register to an event, please visit: http://theknowledgegroup.org/.

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