Paul Bent, senior managing director and head of legal services and business assessment at The Alta Group, and Patricia Voorhees, a director at The Alta Group, will be presenters at the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s 61st Annual Convention from Oct. 9 to Oct. 11. read more

SEP 27, 2022 - 7:42 am

Paul Bent is back with a history lesson on the “Internet of Things” as well as an update on protecting your firm from the liability of data collection, internet connectivity and potential threats to equipment assets in the ever-connected world of the internet. ... read more

Monitor 101 2022

Equipment finance industry legal experts will predict challenges that will last the next decade, while other sessions will explore circular economy and ESG financing opportunities, “as-a-service” financing models and the transition away from LIBOR at ELFA’s Annual Convention. read more

SEP 30, 2021 - 6:36 am

Paul Bent of The Alta Group provides a somewhat snarky explainer on new and expanding financial disclosure regulations in the state of California and what they’ll mean for the equipment finance and leasing industry at large. ... read more

Monitor 101 2021

Fraud can happen anywhere, from electronic leases to hand delivered documents signed in ink. Dominic Liberatore and Paul Bent explore fraud in the equipment finance industry and provide recommendations for identifying red flags and challenging suspicious activity. ... read more

May/June 2020

Paul Bent and Joe Nachbin of The Alta Group take a long view of the coming year, assessing the risks that the industry will have to address and giving some advice on how to do so.... read more

January/February 2019

The use of a stipulated loss value formula to measure a lessor’s damages resulting from lessee defaults will be debated during a session at the ELFA Legal Forum May 7 in Washington, D.C. read more

MAY 3, 2018 - 6:48 am