Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative on KALX
Listen in as Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative (BAR-C) Vice President Adam Parks speaks with KALX Method to the Madness host Lisa Kiefer about the future of sustainable ranching and the alternative meat sourcing option his collective aims to provide local consumers....
Video: Discussion on Direct Public Offerings
The Cutting Edge team specializes in working with clients interested in community capital raise solutions such as direct public offerings, also known as DPOs. In addition to the many years of experience handling DPOs for other organizations, Cutting Edge was once the...
SEC Lowers More Barriers to Community Capital
This month has been full of big news. Yes, there was the election, of course. But there was other important news for those interested in community capital. On Monday November 2, 2020 – the day before the election – the Securities and Exchange Commission issued final...
Webinar Replay: Community Capital Series Part I and II
We need to build back better, and community capital is one of the key paths to drive the change we seek. This past month, Cutting Edge teamed up with SVX US to cohost a two-part webinar series exploring live case studies of place-based funds and nonprofit...
Welcome Randy Nye, New Cutting Edge Attorney
Randy’s law practice is focused on matters relating to executive compensation and employee benefits with a special emphasis on alternative asset investing within self-directed retirement accounts and (k) plans. Randy originally cultivated this expertise while...
Welcome Erinn Brooks, Marketing and Communications Associate
We are so excited to welcome Erinn Brooks, our new Marketing and Communications Associate to our team! For the past decade, Erinn has worked in the communications and marketing field in an array of industries spanning fashion and education, but has a special...
Department of Shareholder Primacy?
This week, the Department of Labor (DOL), headed by Eugene Scalia, announced a proposed rule intending to “update and clarify” the DOL’s investment duty regulations relating to ERISA Plans. DOL intends to impose a ban on any fiduciary managing an ERISA plan if they...
Black Lives Matter: How Do We End Injustice?
Black Lives Matter We have been listening and learning from many resonant voices in the Black Lives movement. We are asking ourselves how to be a better ally and how we can use our skills and resources to make change that is long overdue. One key question on our...
Webinar: Using Charitable Loan Funds to Spur Community Economic Recovery
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on businesses, especially small and mission-driven enterprises, Cutting Edge presented a webinar for nonprofits considering deploying a loan fund to further their missions. Nonprofits that intend to assist their...
Intrastate and Small Fund Exemptions to the 1940 Act: Now Is the Time
Imagine a typical American community in these very untypical times. COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll. Many small businesses have closed -- temporarily, it is hoped. Unprecedented numbers of workers have been laid off or furloughed as businesses conserve cash in the...
Welcome Elizabeth Carter! Our New Cutting Edge Attorney
We are so excited to have Elizabeth Carter join our team! Elizabeth is a social enterprise and community development attorney licensed in NY, NJ, and IL (pending). As Principal Attorney of the New Jersey-based law firm The Law...
Insights From Innovators: WEPOWER
At the end of 2019, Cutting Edge was contacted by St Louis non-profit, WEPOWER to help support their accelerator program for Black and Latinx entrepreneurs in St. Louis. Cutting Edge attorney, Sarah Kaplan, took on the project specifically to create a securities law...
Insights From Innovators: TechSoup
Cutting Edge has worked with TechSoup for the past three years to provide legal strategy and expertise on their Reg A+ offering, which debuted in November 2018. TechSoup is the first nonprofit to participate in a Reg A and has seen great success in their first year....
Insights From Innovators: The Staffing Cooperative
All sectors and industries need workers to function. However, too often staff can find themselves being exploited by upper management and undervalued for the work they provide. The Staffing Cooperative exists to build staffing companies where workers are in control....
Is the IRS About to Make a Huge Mistake That Only Supports the Wealthy?
The IRS may be making a huge mistake that only supports the wealthy. (But you can help fix it.) At Cutting Edge Counsel we stand for fairness and equity. A big part of what drives us is the need to level the playing field between the wealthy and the non-wealthy. We...
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