December 12, 2023 In an earlier newsletter, we advised that new reporting requirements had been mandated under the CORPORATE TRANSPARENCY ACT (“CTA”) for all companies created or registered to do business in any state. The reporting requirements under the CTA will apply to most family businesses, professional practices, LLCs, S-Corps, companies, and partnerships. More than […]
September 28, 2023
A comprehensive look at the SEC's paradigm shift in regulating private fund advisors.
May 19, 2023
By Natalie Roberts, Macaluso LLP The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) has adopted significant new reporting requirements applicable to investment advisors to all Private Equity Fund Advisors, Large Private Equity Fund Advisors, and Large Private Hedge Fund Advisors.[1] Form PF, the confidential reporting form for certain advisors to private funds, has been amended. […]
March 16, 2023
ChatGPT in the current format my firm has access to is not for the faint of heart. I personally tested it in connection with a recent speech I was writing on a not too esoteric legal topic. It failed in the way that juniors sometimes can write things that seem completely reasonable but are completely wrong.
March 13, 2023
By Michael Macaluso The decision to stand behind uninsured deposits by the Fed, Treasury, and the FDIC announced on Sunday, March 12, I believe was necessary and correct. It has been probable since the aftermath of Lehman Brothers, however, that any reasonably large systematically connected depository institution (and some non-depository institutions) could potentially trigger a […]
October 24, 2018
Interview with Lehigh University’s Acumen Magazine, Fall 2018 Edition. Link to Article acumen Banking on a Bottom Line Following success in global law, Michael Macaluso starts a company to make money by solving problems like world hunger and heart disease By Weld Royal ’88 Not long after Richard Nixon’s historic 1972 trip to China, […]
June 6, 2016
Mary Meeker’s much anticipated 2o16 Internet Trends report sporting 213 slides and delivered by her in under 30 minutes is now available on the Kleiner Perkins website. Click here to read.
June 4, 2016
As many financial institutions, particularly banks are exiting or scaling back their participation in certain parts of the capital markets value chain, or deciding not to enter others, an array of old and new players is stepping in to compete for those revenues. BCG provides significant insight on the issue in a recent article entitled “How Value Is Shifting in the […]
May 6, 2016
The following chart shows consolidation of the U.S. banking sector roughly from the early 1990s to 2010 which led to four major banks. There are other similar stories in banking and particularly colorful stories in investment banking. Also, there already was significant consolidation before the early 1990s. Still the chart is impressive in the story it tells through a single picture. Interestingly […]
May 30, 2015
Are there new rules for how to approach corporate strategy? In an interesting and at times provocative piece, Helen Rosen of Global Access and Sigvard Bore of Pactera Technology, a consulting subsidiary of The Blackstone Group, make the case in “Think AND Do…The Need for Continuous Strategy”, which can be downloaded here: Continuous Strategy. The authors note that the […]
December 12, 2023
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