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...
Real ESG Scoring is Coming – Are Law Firms Ready to be Rated?
Two bombshell articles landed recently. First a Bloomberg Businessweek piece titled The ESG Mirage, on how companies are rated (or maybe not) for their performances tied to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors. The article leads with the bold...
Why Cutting Edge Partnered with SVX to Launch an Impact Platform
Following the recent successful TechSoup Regulation A+ offering, SVX.US is now introducing its new cohort of impact capital campaigns, including Medwave Software Solutions and Shared Capital Cooperative, with additional listings soon to follow. This seems a good time...
2021: A Year of Impact
Cutting Edge Capital would like to thank each and every client, partner organization, community member, and ally that helped make 2021 another impactful year. Join us in commemorating highlights that made 2021 a year we’ll never forget. Before you go, download a...
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Summary of our Firm Our law firm and consulting practice help mission-driven organizations raise capital in alignment with their values and goals. We use our experience, legal knowledge, and passion to assist businesses, cooperatives, and nonprofits with innovative...
How Co-ops Raise Capital
An overview of funding sources for cooperative start-up and development If you are starting or developing a cooperative, you have probably noticed that cooperatives do not use the same approach to capital-raising that standard businesses do. The standard...
Direct Public Offering Strategies: Which One Is Right For You?
Considering a capital raise that you can publicly promote? This overview chart is designed to compare key features of direct offering strategies that permit an issuer to solicit investment from its network. None of these strategies require the use of a broker but all...
Testing the Waters for Securities Offerings
Suppose your organization needs growth capital and you’ve talked about doing a securities offering of some sort. But you’re reluctant to commit the time and resources that it takes to gear up for a securities offering without having some confidence that it...
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