Philip is a partner based in the Firm’s New York City office and the Team Leader of Withum’s Broker-Dealers Services Team with more than 20 years of experience in public accounting.
He provides audit and accounting services to a diversified group of clients in both the private and public sectors, including broker-dealers, alternative investments and SEC registered companies. Philip also has experience with employee benefit plan services, manufacturing, distribution and other commercial businesses. Specific to broker-dealers, he has experience across all lines of business conducted within the industry spanning from small introducing to large clearing firms.
Philip has assisted SEC registrants with various aspects of SEC reporting including S-1 filings, due diligence, carve out audits as well as mergers and acquisitions resulting in the review and filing of proxy statements. He has assisted SEC registrants raise tens of billions of dollars through the IPO process.
Learn more about my professional experience and how I spend my time outside the firm.
Education:
Professional Affiliations:
Philip is one of the authors of the 2013 – current versions of “PPC’s Practice Aids for Audits of Noncarrying Broker-Dealers,” a Thompson Reuters product used by CPA Firms. He also serves on the New York State Society of CPAs’ Stockbrokerage Committee, where he is a part of the technical hot-line team, and is a frequent speaker at broker-dealer conferences for the Foundation for Accounting Education.
Share Cryptocurrencies and other blockchain assets are what I and others like to refer to as “smart money.” They are designed to remove the need for intermediary third parties such as banks and replace them with a consensus protocol. This allows a group of anonymous parties to build a trustworthy network and ledger, cutting out…
On November 8, 2016 the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Division of Trading and Markets issued a no-action letter regarding the treatment of operating leases under the Securities and Exchange Act Rule 15c3-1. This letter is in response to a letter written by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (“SIFMA”) to the SEC to…
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Inspection Brief On April 19, 2016, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”) issued a Staff Inspection Brief (the “Brief”) which gave the audit industry a preview of the results of the PCAOB’s 2015 inspections of auditors of brokers and dealers. Based on their observations, the PCAOB also gave…