One Flight, One Crew: Opening the door to a more inclusive aviation community
The professional aviation community is full of skilled pilots who command aircraft across the globe. With the world more open than ever, it’s easy to assume that the pilot pool is just as wide and diverse. However, if that was the case, Cutting Edge client FlexAir...
Employment Blog II: Noncompete and nondisclosure – keeping things in the family
Noncompete and nondisclosure agreements have become common pieces of employer/employee and contractor relationship, as well as in relationships with suppliers and parties in a range of contracts. Many enterprises benefit from having, and using, these agreements, which...
Investing in Our Planet: Sustainability Goals at Work
Each April, we celebrate Earth Month and Earth Day, recognizing and advocating for the need to protect our planet, its resources, and the people within it. In commemoration of Earth Month, we're featuring clients actively investing in our planet and putting...
Employment Blog I: Founders Need to Get Ahead of Employment Law Issues
As enterprises grow, they demand more people power. And as they work to respond to that demand, enterprises inevitably encounter employment law questions. To avoid costly and damaging missteps, it is important for founders and leaders to understand the laws involved...
Women Lead: Celebrating Paths of Empowerment
Working with mission-led, impact-focused organizations has afforded Cutting Edge the opportunity to partner with individuals representing a wide array of communities. This month, we're featuring women-led/women-founded organizations pioneering change in their...
Transforming African American Communities through Economic Power and Wealth
At Cutting Edge, we strive to build an economy that provides opportunities for everyone to participate, thrive, and build wealth. Unfortunately, traditional capital raising models often exclude people who want to invest in businesses and organizations that provide...
Diversified Community Investment Fund: A Versatile Vehicle for Democratizing Capital
Image by Anna Dyshel from Pixabay Community investment funds are an idea whose time has come. And the menu of offering strategies available to build community investment funds has now gotten slightly longer, with the addition of a particularly versatile strategy. At...
Cutting Edge Awarded City of Chicago Community Wealth Building and Technical Assistance Grant
Cutting Edge is a proud recipient of the City of Chicago Community Wealth Building and Technical Assistance Grant, as awarded by Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot, the Office of Equity and Racial Justice (OERJ), and the Department of Planning and Development (DPD). The...
Workers to Owners: Recent Co-op Conversions Power a Worker-Owned Economy
Image by John Hain from Pixabay Worker-owned cooperative conversions are the wave of the future. It’s no surprise then that tech companies are riding that wave straight to employee ownership. We are excited to showcase two new worker ownership conversions led by...
2022 Year in Review: Celebrating a Year of Opportunity
Whether you are a partner, client, community member or general supporter, we'd like to share our gratitude and appreciation for helping Cutting Edge make 2022 a successful year. Join us in a moment of reflection as we highlight client achievements, legal advancements,...
Community Investment Funds: Striving Towards Economic Justice
Community Investment Funds (CIFs) can be powerful tools for empowering communities and supporting economic democracy. They do so by investing in new or growing businesses, real estate revitalization projects or other mission driven enterprises within their...
Social Enterprises Benefit from Adjustments to Regulation Crowdfund Limits
Photo by XiaoXiao Sun on Unsplash Social Enterprises Benefit From Adjustments to Regulation Crowdfund Limits Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made inflation adjustments to Regulation Crowdfund (Reg CF) investment limits and raise limits. A...
Attorney Sarah Kaplan Joins as Partner
Sarah Kaplan has joined the partnership at Cutting Edge Counsel. Sarah first affiliated with the firm in 2015 and joined as an Associate in 2021. Sarah has 10 years of experience serving a wide range of cooperatives, including worker, consumer, agricultural, platform,...
New Rules for Finders? Not So Fast…
The SEC made a splash in October 2020 when it proposed a new set of rules that would allow finders to receive transaction-based compensation for introducing investors to issuers even though they are not licensed as a securities broker-dealer. This proposal...
CoPeace: A Pioneering Impact-Focused Holding Company
Cutting Edge is pleased to occasionally present a guest blog in our monthly newsletter. The following is contributed by CoPeace, a Cutting Edge Client since 2017. Short for “Companies of Peace,” CoPeace is currently conducting a Regulation Crowdfunding offering on...
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