U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Center unit rules governing the disclosure of beneficial ownership information are currently set to become effective January 1, 2024. The new rules contain ambiguities regarding certain fundamental definitions, and do not definitively resolve issues regarding access to the beneficial owner information reported as well as mechanical aspects of the reporting procedures.

In a recent Risk Alert, the Division of Examinations of the SEC provided guidelines explaining how it utilizes a risk-based approach for selecting SEC-registered investment advisers to examine and for determining the risk areas to examine. If you have any questions concerning how to prepare or organize for an SEC examination, please contact Meryl Wiener or your regular Warshaw Burstein attorney.

Earlier this year, the SEC staff issued a bulletin setting forth standards of conduct for broker-dealers and investment advisers with respect to their respective care obligations when providing investment advice and recommendations to retail investors (the “Bulletin”).

Warshaw Burstein, LLP today announced it has joined IR Global, a multi-disciplinary professional services network that provides legal, accountancy, and financial advice to companies and individuals around the world.

Corporate partners Martin Siegel, Steve Semian, and Jason Diener represented Nexalin Technology, Inc. in the creation of a formalized joint venture arrangement with Wider Come Limited.

On February 7, 2023, the SEC’s Division of Examinations announced its examination priorities for 2023. Examination priorities are released annually and provide investors and registrants with transparency into those areas that DOE believes bring heightened risks to investors, registrants and to the integrity of the U.S. capital markets.

Litigator Maxwell Rubin Promoted to Counsel

Warshaw Burstein represented a Virginia-based owner in the refinancing of the former Temple Emanuel building in the North Capitol Hill area of Denver. The team was led by Michael Zukerman, of counsel in the Warshaw Burstein Real Estate Group, and included counsel Chaya Shafran, and corporate partner Stephen Semian.

On August 26, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to the “accredited investor” definition in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, that update and improve the accredited investor definition. The purpose of the amendments is to better identify investors that have sufficient knowledge and expertise to participate in investment opportunities that do not have the rigorous disclosure and procedural requirements and related investor protections, provided by registration under the Securities Act. The amendments are substantially as proposed by the SEC on December 18, 2019.

If you have already received a PPP loan, the PPP Flexibility Act will not allow you to apply for or receive a second loan. With respect to loans applied for after enactment of the PPP Flexibility Act, although the covered period has been extended to 24 weeks, there has been no change to the maximum loan amount that can be borrowed under the PPP - it remains 2.5 times a borrower's one-month average payroll cost, as determined under the existing PPP application.

Partners Lori Anne Czepiel, Marilyn Selby Okoshi and Steve Semian, and Counsel Kyle Taylor, attended the panel program, which featured senior executives from Warshaw clients and contacts such as ShopKeep, Kashable, Silicon Valley Bank, Zelkova Ventures and Barron's. 

Published by Thomson Reuters Practical Law Company as part of its Global Guide on Finance series, the article provides a high-level overview of the lending market, forms of security over assets, special purpose vehicles in secured lending, quasi-security, negative pledge, guarantees and loan agreements.  It also covers creation and registration requirements for security interests; problem assets over which security is difficult to grant; risk areas for lenders; structuring the priority of debt; debt trading and transfer mechanisms; agent and trust concepts; enforcement of security interests and borrower insolvency; cross-border issues on loans; taxes; and proposals for reform.
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