Philip B Nathan

About Philip B Nathan

Philip Nathan is a Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s SEC & Accounting Advisory practice. He specializes in assessing and managing the impact of complex consolidation structures, international operations, and major transactions on clients’ systems of accounting and financial reporting.Mr. Nathan has assisted clients across a diverse range of industries to enhance and document their accounting systems, processes and controls in connection with major transactions. He has advised clients in preparation for sales of divisions, spin-offs, corporate realignments, and initial public offerings. Most recently, he has provided post-merger integration support to a publicly traded pet food business, helping the company to reflect and report the effects of a complex reverse merger transaction; assisted a publicly traded biotechnology company to evaluate the effectiveness of its internal controls regarding the calculation of FX gain and loss; and assisted a major tax preparation business to reconstruct, document, and automate its revenue recognition processes following the departure of key accounting personnel.Mr. Nathan assisted the accounting department of a major hospitality company to implement the accounting for several major transactions over the span of three years. These transactions, involving over 600 distinct legal steps, effected the movement of the client’s international management and franchise contracts to a UK-based ownership structure; the liquidation of over 100 obsolete legal entities; the streamlining of the company’s intercompany loan portfolio; and two separate spin-offs of its owned properties and timeshare business. Mr. Nathan led a team which interpreted the reorganization plans into specific journals to be recorded by the client’s accounting teams in multiple global locations and oversaw the development of a task-specific database designed to validate the entries recorded by the teams. To account for the formation of new entities, transfers of investments, intangibles and intercompany balances, and mergers, Mr. Nathan’s team identified and managed numerous differences between the accounting for these transactions under consolidated US GAAP and UK statutory reporting.Mr. Nathan holds a B.S. in accounting from the University of Maryland. He is a CPA, Certified Fraud Examiner, and holds the AICPA’s Certified in Financial Forensics credential. He is a member of the AICPA National Accreditation Commission (NAC), which oversees the ongoing development of the AICPA’s specialty credential programs.

Experience

1. Managing Director

   FTI Consulting

   Apr 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US

Education

• University of Maryland

  BS, Accounting

  2001 — 2005