Legal Advocacy, Consulting and Defense for Businesses
May Law, PC, is a Chicago, Illinois, based law firm prepared to handle legal issues involving compliance, regulation, and helping businesses maintain best practices to prevent disputes and litigation. When faced with compliance issues or regulatory investigations involving commodities, futures, securities, organization, or structure, May Law, PC, is also prepared to secure business continuity and protect your personal interests.
May Law, PC, offers the services of a Chicago attorney for financial services and risk management in cases/matters involving:
Organization and registration of Broker Dealers (BDs), Commodity Pool Operators (CPOs), Investment Advisors (IAs), Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) and Retail Foreign Exchange Dealers (RFEDs): Creating new entities from filing and documentation through licensing and registration, focused on efficient, effective setup to minimize personal liability and tax consequences.
Securities and commodities: Handles regulatory filings and private offering memorandum needed (POM) to invest money establishing potential risks and conflicts that should be reviewed. Provides competent assessment of all obligations to ensure regulatory compliance with laws, regulation and financial services industry standards.
Litigation arbitration and mediation: Provides advice, experience and knowledge to ensure compliance before and prior to litigation, arbitration and mediation. The firm also represents clients throughout the dispute resolution process.
Securities and futures proprietary trading firms and traders: May Law, PC, counsels participants in all the major trading markets, both for exchange and off-floor operations. The firm represents floor brokers, market makers, specialists, traders, member firms and Forex traders including proprietary trading boutiques.
Compliance: May Law, PC, has created compliance programs for both securities and commodities/futures firms, both small and large. The firm prepares compliance programs, advises on sales practice questions, and consults and conducts internal investigations.
Mergers and acquisitions: The firm provides counsel and advocacy for businesses entering a merger or acquisition. May Law counsels and advises on how to buy existing firms rather than starting from scratch, and assist in streamlining the process of mergers and acquiring a new business.
Capital, margin, clearance and operations: Ensures that capital calculations are accurately documented and works with firms to properly handle capital and margin regulations. The firm counsels accounting firms performing audits of commodities, Forex and securities firms.
Money management: The firm advises money managers and assists clients in operating hedge funds and commodity pools, including preparation of private placement memorandums (PPM) and related documents, ensuring proper registration or valid exemptions.
Underwriting: Lawyer Andrew S. May conducts with private placements, which are nonpublic offerings, and he helps draft documents and provide a more feasible and cost effective way to raise capital from investors.
Investigations and enforcement proceedings: May Law, PC, has particular expertise in defending Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), state agency, and exchange investigations and enforcement proceedings. Some of the firm's greatest successes have been in this arena. Because of the firm's frequent contacts with enforcement offices, it often sees enforcement matters concluded through devising innovative undertakings and avoiding unwelcome corrective measures.
Contact Financial Services Attorney Andrew May
Free consultations · Se habla español · Hours: 8:30-5:30, Monday through Friday, evening and weekend hours by appointment · Call 224-534-0579 or contact May Law, PC's Chicago, Illinois Cook County compliance training attorney by e-mail for an initial consultation or case evaluation.
