Family Law, Securities Law, Business Organization

CTFC Reinstates Family Office Exception

by Christine McKillip on 12/5/2012

On November 29, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) released a blanket No-Action Letter providing relief from registration as a Commodity Pool Operator (“CPO”) to family offices that qualify for the...more

CTFC Reinstates Family Office Exception

by Thomas J. Handler, J.D., P.C. on 12/5/2012

On November 29, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) released a blanket No-Action Letter providing relief from registration as a Commodity Pool Operator (“CPO”) to family offices that qualify for the...more

CTFC Reinstates Family Office Exception

by Thomas J. Handler, J.D., P.C. on 12/5/2012

On November 29, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the “CFTC”) released a blanket No-Action Letter providing relief from registration as a Commodity Pool Operator (“CPO”) to family offices that qualify for the...more

Handler Thayer Commercial Alert - The JOBS Act: A Revolutionary Opportunity On Hold

by Christine McKillip on 4/5/2012

On April 5, 2012, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”) into law. The JOBS Act encompasses several significant changes to the federal securities laws, providing a proverbial facelift...more

Corporate Law and Family Law at the Crossroads: Spouses as Shareholders in Canada 2012

by Ellyn Law LLP on 3/27/2012

Small and medium sized businesses are the engines which drive the North American economy. Increasingly, people go in to their own business. Often spouses and other family members are in business together. Because of...more

Legislative Proposals to Facilitate Small Business Capital Formation

by Morrison & Foerster LLP on 10/17/2011

In our June 2011 client memorandum, we discussed H.R. 2167, the proposed bill introduced by Representative David Schweikert (R-AZ) to increase the threshold for mandatory registration for all companies under the Securities...more

Family Office Exemption Narrowly Defined by S.E.C.

by Thomas J. Handler, J.D., P.C. on 7/15/2011

Following the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression which followed, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 democratic campaign platform called for regulation of the securities exchanges “to the full extent of federal...more

SEC's Proposed "Family Office" Rule and Rule 260.204.9

by Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis... on 10/14/2010

In The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway wrote: “„The very rich are different from you and me.? And how someone had said to Julian, „Yes, they have more money.?” That is certainly true in the case of the families...more

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CTFC Reinstates Family Office Exception

CTFC Reinstates Family Office Exception

CTFC Reinstates Family Office Exception

Handler Thayer Commercial Alert - The JOBS Act: A Revolutionary Opportunity On Hold

Corporate Law and Family Law at the Crossroads: Spouses as Shareholders in Canada 2012

Legislative Proposals to Facilitate Small Business Capital Formation

Family Office Exemption Narrowly Defined by S.E.C.

SEC's Proposed "Family Office" Rule and Rule 260.204.9

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