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Recent tax law changes favor S Corporation Shareholders and Venture Capital Investors

One of the more publicized provisions of the 2012 Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act directed the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission to establish rules allowing companies to use crowdfunding to raise capital in an exempt securities offering.

Four new Associates have joined the law firm of Friday, Eldredge & Clark, LLP. Jordan Broyles, Katherine Stephens and Blake Lewis have joined the firm’s Little Rock office and Matthew D. Mitchell has joined its Rogers office.

William H. "Buddy" Sutton, long-time partner in the Little Rock-based law firm Friday, Eldredge & Clark, and a prominent figure in Arkansas legal, business and civic communities for decades, passed away Thursday morning.

Friday, Eldredge & Clark LLP is ranked in four practice groups in the 2015 edition of Chambers USA: A Guide To Americas Leading Lawyers for Business. In addition, 23 of the firms attorneys received individual rankings in the publication.

A Non-Bankers Perspective: Attorney Robert Smith is critical of the new regulatory environment that financial institutions face and is concerned about the dwindling number of small-town banks.