Are you looking to start or grow your business as we emerge from the pandemic? Are you considering changing your existing business from a sole proprietorship to an LLC or an S Corporation? In a recent “Good Morning Schaumburg” presentation, Lavelle Law attorneys discussed how to choose the correct entity for your business, as well as how to structure the relationships among the entity and its owners through the careful use of shareholder and operating agreements. New and emerging businesses seeking to raise capital learned how they can do so through certain private placements of their securities without the need to incur the time and expense of registering them with the SEC and the Illinois Securities Department.

SEC-registered investment advisers must navigate several annual and ongoing regulatory and compliance requirements. Two of the most important investment adviser annual requirements are submitting an annual updating amendment to the Form ADV and conducting an annual review. Failing to comply with these annual requirements can subject an investment adviser to regulatory examinations, enforcements, fines, censures, reputational harm, and other penalties. In this podcast, attorney Samantha Bonamassa discusses the compliance requirements and answers FAQs.