Citrin Cooperman Announces Strategic Alliance with Leasecake to Enhance Lease Accounting and Real Estate Management Solutions

New alliance enhances lease administration, lease accounting, and location management capabilities for franchise, multi-unit, and private equity-backed businesses.

NEW YORK, NY – August 20, 2026 -- Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC (CCA), the premier professional services provider for private, middle-market businesses and high-net-worth individuals, announced today a strategic alliance with Leasecake, a leading lease administration, lease accounting, and location management platform. The collaboration expands CCA’s Digital Services technology ecosystem, providing clients with a modern solution to centralize real estate and lease data, improve compliance, and gain greater visibility into one of the most significant areas of business spend.

For many growing organizations, particularly franchise systems, multi-unit operators, and private equity-backed companies, lease and location information is often dispersed across spreadsheets, emails, and disconnected systems. Leasecake's platform supports ASC 842 and IFRS 16 compliance requirements while enabling organizations to manage lease obligations, track critical dates, and gain insights across their real estate portfolios. The solution integrates with leading financial management platforms, including NetSuite, R365, QuickBooks, Sage, and Oracle, helping organizations connect lease data with their broader finance and accounting technology environments.

Delivering Greater Value to Franchise and Multi-Location Businesses

The strategic alliance is particularly well suited for organizations with complex real estate portfolios, including franchisors, franchisees, restaurant groups, retail operators, healthcare organizations, and other businesses managing multiple locations. By centralizing lease and location information, companies can improve financial reporting accuracy, strengthen operational oversight, and better prepare for transactions, refinancing activities, and growth initiatives. In addition to technology implementation services, CCA will help organizations maximize the value of the platform through advisory, accounting, and business process outsourcing services tailored to each client’s operational and financial needs.

"As we continue expanding our Digital Services offerings, we are focused on bringing innovative technologies to our clients that solve meaningful business challenges," said Shawn Gilronan, Managing Partner, Digital Services at Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC. "Leasecake's modern approach to lease administration and lease accounting, combined with its growing ecosystem and real estate-focused capabilities, makes it a valuable addition to our technology portfolio."

"The Leasecake alliance was an obvious choice as they are an emerging industry standard that helps our franchise clients with real estate compliance and risk,” said Michael Iannuzzi, Partner and Franchise Practice Leader, Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC. “This platform enables the Citrin Cooperman franchise practice to continue building its ecosystem to fully service the franchise community both at the franchisor and franchisee level - it’s exciting the value it will bring to our clients."

"We are excited about the opportunities this platform creates for our outsourced accounting clients," said Mike Zyborowicz, Partner and Business Process Outsourcing Practice Leader, Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC. "Leasecake's technology and AI-powered capabilities help organizations transform lease information into actionable insights faster, allowing leadership teams to make better-informed business decisions."

"Our customers are focused on growth, and real estate is too often the risk nobody’s watching until it becomes a crisis,” said Taj Adhav, Founder and Chief Brand Officer, Leasecake. “Through CCA’s advisory offerings, Leasecake turns lease data and compliance into a strategic advantage that helps all stakeholders make faster and better-informed decisions. We’re proud to build this strategic alliance together and bring greater value to their franchise, PE, and digital services advisory practices."

About Citrin Cooperman

Citrin Cooperman is the nation’s premier accounting and advisory provider for private, middle-market businesses and high net-worth individuals. Consistently recognized as a great place to work and among the fastest growing top 20 U.S. firms, our more than 3,300 professionals focus on what counts to positively impact the lives of our people, clients, and communities. Our commitment to outstanding client service, professional excellence and deep industry expertise underpins a strategic growth approach that powers our dynamic, innovative culture.

Citrin Cooperman is an independent member firm of Moore North America, Inc. (MNA) Association, which is itself a regional member of Moore Global Network Limited (MGNL), one of the world’s leading accountancy and advisory networks with over 37,000 professionals across 227 independent firms working in more than 114 countries. All the firms associated with MNA are independently owned and managed entities. Their membership in, or association with, MNA should not be construed as constituting or implying any partnership between them.

"Citrin Cooperman" is the brand under which Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP, and Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC serve clients' business needs in an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA's Code of Professional Conduct and applicable law, regulations, and professional standards. Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP, a licensed independent CPA firm, provides attest services and Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC provides business advisory and nonattest services. Learn more about Citrin Cooperman at www.citrincooperman.com.

About Leasecake

Leasecake is an award-winning lease administration, lease accounting, and location management platform built for multi-unit operators, corporate tenants, franchisors, and their advisors. Their platform serves as a system of record for all real estate and location-related obligations — leases, contracts, licenses, and other business critical agreements — with native mobile access, unlimited users, and proprietary AI-powered lease intelligence.

Leasecake was founded in 2017 and supports more than 40,000 locations across hundreds of brands, and thousands of companies globally.

Media Contacts

Citrin Cooperman
Dan Ginsburg, Principal, Corporate Communications Leader
Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC
+1-332-278-3553
dginsburg@citrincooperman.com

Leasecake
Taj Adhav, Founder
Leasecake
+1-407-704-9518
taj.adhav@leasecake.com