For the past eight years, through its Entrepreneurial Winning Women™ program, EY has taken aim at the gender gap among high-growth companies. Despite years of progress, today, women-owned businesses still struggle to reach the same economic scale as businesses started by men. For instance, according to the Economic Policy Institute, women-owned businesses earn 25 cents for every dollar male-owned businesses earn. To address this imbalance, EY helps women entrepreneurs overcome obstacles to growth through its Entrepreneurial Winning Women program. As a group,...

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. (Ogletree Deakins), one of the largest labor and employment law firms representing management, is pleased to announce that the firm has been selected as the recipient of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s (MCAA) Thomas L. Sager Award for the Midwest region. The Thomas L. Sager Award is given to law firms that have demonstrated sustained commitment to improve the hiring, retention, and promotion of minority attorneys. Every year, MCCA selects one law firm in each...

New York, November 5, 2015 - Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP represented G2 FinTech (G2) in the sale of significant technology and intellectual property assets to KPMG LLP. G2 is a boutique tax technology firm specializing in tax analysis and compliance software for the investment management community. KPMG, the audit, tax and advisory firm, is acquiring all of G2’s U.S. tax software and intellectual property, including G2's flagship product, TaxGopher®. G2 will remain a separate entity with a continuing business...

DS-Concept Factoring, Inc., a global commercial finance company specializing in international non-recourse factoring, has provided a $3 million export accounts receivable facility to a trading company headquartered in the British Virgin Islands with subsidiaries in the US, Canada and UK. The client, who supplies plastics, polymers and resins to manufacturers and distributors in the US, Europe and the Middle East, will receive Euro, GBP and USD factoring lines. Implementing this non-recourse factoring facility to accommodate growing sales, the client will receive financing...

DS-Concept Factoring, Inc., a global commercial finance company specializing in international non-recourse factoring, has provided a $3 million export accounts receivable facility to a trading company headquartered in the British Virgin Islands with subsidiaries in the US, Canada and UK. The client, who supplies plastics, polymers and resins to manufacturers and distributors in the US, Europe and the Middle East, will receive Euro, GBP and USD factoring lines. Implementing this non-recourse factoring facility to accommodate growing sales, the client will receive financing on...

On Sept. 9, 2015, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced new measures to fortify its pursuit of corporate wrongdoing in criminal and civil matters. The policy shift, set forth in a memorandum from Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, seeks to hold individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing and ensure full cooperation from corporations in “ferreting out” individual misconduct. Funds are already facing heightened regulatory requirements. The newly announced policy now marks an additional shift for funds under investigation. Most significantly, the...

The private fund adviser industry has fallen under the SEC’s registration authority only since the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act granted the regulator increased oversight beginning in 2012. Fee and expense practices in particular have come under increased scrutiny since mid-2014, when SEC examinations identified high rates of fee- and expense-related violations. In that round of inspections, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations identified “violations of law or material weaknesses in controls” in more than half of the 112 examinations...