08/23/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 08/23/2024 13:20
AMENDMENT TO THE MUNICIPAL ADVISOR'S MOST RECENT FORM MA-I
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Notification will automatically be sent to the Login CIK, Submission Contact, and Primary Issuers. Specify additional addresses below.
Please read the General Instructions for this form and other forms in the MA series, as well as its subsection, "Specific Instructions for Form MA-I," before completing this form. All italicized terms herein are defined or described in the Glossary of Terms appended to the General Instructions.
Every municipal advisory firm applying for registration or registered as a municipal advisor on Form MA, to provide information regarding each natural person who is an associated person of the firm and engages in municipal advisory activities on the firm's behalf (for purposes of Form MA-I, the "individual"); and
Every natural person (sole proprietor) applying for registration as a municipal advisor on Form MA, to provide additional personal information.
Complete this form truthfully. False statements or omissions may result in denial of a municipal advisor's application, revocation or suspension of such registration, or criminal prosecution. Form MA-I must be amended promptly whenever any information previously provided becomes inaccurate. See General Instruction 9.
In providing your responses, please note that the definition of "employee" for purposes of this form includes an independent contractor who engages in municipal advisory activities on behalf of a municipal advisory firm. See Glossary of Terms.
(For individuals who are employed with more than one firm, provide the information required by this Item 1-B for each such firm. For sole proprietors, enter the legal name under which you conduct your municipal advisor-related activities, and skip to Item 1-B.1.)
Notification will automatically be sent to the Login CIK, Submission Contact, and Primary Issuers. Specify additional addresses below.
Enter the requested information for each office of the municipal advisory firm where the individual is or will be physically located, and each office from which the individual is or will be supervised:
A private residential address will not be included in publicly available versions of this registration form.
Enter the following information for all other names that the individual has used or is using, or by which the individual is known or has been known, other than the individualĀ“s legal name, since the age of 18.
This space should include, for example, nicknames, aliases, and names used before or after marriage.
Starting with the current address, enter the following information for all the individualĀ“s residential addresses for the past 5 years. Leave no gaps greater than three months between addresses. Report changes in an amendment to this form as they occur in the future. Private residential addresses will not be included in publicly available versions of this form.
Provide complete employment history of the individual for the past 10 years. Include the municipal advisory firm(s) entered in Item 1-B. Enter the following information for each employer. Account for all time, leaving no gaps longer than three months. Include full- and part-time employment, self-employment, military service, and homemaking. Also include statuses such as unemployed, full-time education, extended travel, or other similar statuses. Such statuses should be entered in the space provided below for "Name of Municipal Advisory Firm or Company."
Prior employment history must be entered in reverse chronological order.
If "Yes", please enter the following details for each other business below:
IF THE ANSWER TO ANY OF THE QUESTIONS IN ITEMS 6A - 6J AND 6M IS "YES," PROVIDE DETAILS OF ALL EVENTS OR PROCEEDINGS ON THE APPROPRIATE DISCLOSURE REPORTING PAGES (DRPs).
One event or proceeding may result in the requirement to answer "Yes" to more than one question below.
Refer to the Glossary of Terms for definitions or descriptions of italicized terms.
If the answer is "Yes" to any question below in Item 6A or 6B, complete a Criminal Action DRP.
(1) Has the individual ever:
(2) Based upon activities that occurred while the individual exercised control over it, has an organization ever:
(1) Has the individual ever:
(a) been convicted of any misdemeanor or pled guilty or nolo contendere ("no contest") in a domestic, foreign or military court to any charge of a misdemeanor involving: municipal advisory activities or a municipal advisor-related or investment-related business or any fraud, false statements or omissions, wrongful taking of property, bribery, perjury, forgery, counterfeiting, extortion, or a conspiracy to commit any of these offenses?
(b) been charged with any misdemeanor of the kind described in 6B(1)(a)?
If the answer is "Yes" to any question below in Items 6C-6G(1), complete a Regulatory Action DRP.
Has the SEC or the CFTC ever:
(1) found the individual to have made a false statement or omission?
(2) found the individual to have been involved in a violation of any SEC or CFTC regulation or statute?
(3) found the individual to have been a cause of a denial, suspension, revocation, or restriction of the authorization of a municipal advisor-related business or investment-related business to operate?
(4) entered an order against the individual in connection with municipal advisor-related or investment-related activity?
(5) imposed a civil money penalty on the individual, or ordered the individual to cease and desist from any activity?
(6) found the individual to have willfully violated any provision of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Commodity Exchange Act, or any rule or regulation under any of such Acts, or any of the rules of the MSRB, or found the individal to have been unable to comply with any provision of such Acts, rules or regulations?
(7) found the individual to have willfully aided, abetted, counseled, commanded, induced, or procured the violation by any person of any provision of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Commodity Exchange Act, or any rule or regulation under any of such Acts, or any of the rules of the MSRB?
(8) found the individual to have failed reasonably to supervise another person subject to his or her supervision, with a view to preventing the violation of any provision of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Commodity Exchange Act, or any rule or regulation under any of such Acts, or any of the rules of the MSRB?
(1) Has any other federal regulatory agency or any state regulatory agency or foreign financial regulatory authority ever:
(a) found the individual to have made a false statement or omission or to have been dishonest, unfair or unethical?
(b) found the individual to have been involved in a violation of municipal advisor-related or investment-related regulation(s) or statute(s)?
(c) found the individual to have been a cause of a denial, suspension, revocation, or restriction of the authorization of a municipal advisor-related or investment-related business to operate?
(d) entered an order against the individual in connection with a municipal advisor-related or investment-related activity?
(e) denied, suspended, or revoked the individual's registration or license or otherwise, by order, prevented the individual from associating with a municipal advisor-related or investment-related business or restricted his or her activities?
(2) Has the individual ever been subject to any final order of a state securities commission (or any agency or office performing like functions), a state authority that supervises or examines banks, savings associations, or credit unions, a state insurance commission (or any agency or office performing like functions), a federal banking agency, or the National Credit Union Administration, that:
(a) bars the individual from association with an entity regulated by such commission, authority, agency, or office, or from engaging in the business of securities, insurance, banking, savings association activities, or credit union activities; or
(b) is based on violations of any laws or regulations that prohibit fraudulent, manipulative, or deceptive conduct?
Has any self-regulatory organization or commodities exchange ever:
(1) found the individual to have made a false statement or omission?
(2) found the individual to have been involved in a violation of its rules (other than a violation designated as a "minor rule violation" under a plan approved by the SEC)?
(3) found the individual to have been a cause of a denial, suspension, revocation, or restriction of the authorization of a municipal advisor-related or investment-related business to operate?
(4) disciplined the individual by expelling or suspending him or her from membership, barring or suspending the individual's association with its members, or restricting the individual's activities?
(5) found the individual to have willfully violated any provision of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Commodity Exchange Act, or any rule or regulation under any of such Acts, or any of the rules of the MSRB, or found the individual to have been unable to comply with any provision of such Acts, rules or regulations?
(6) found the individual to have willfully aided, abetted, counseled, commanded, induced, or procured the violation by any person of any provision of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Commodity Exchange Act, or any rule or regulation under any of such Acts, or any of the rules of the MSRB?
(7) found the individual to have failed reasonably to supervise another person subject to your supervision, with a view to preventing the violation of any provision of the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Commodity Exchange Act, or any rule or regulation under any of such Acts, or any of the rules of the MSRB?
Has the individual been notified, in writing, that he or she is currently the subject of any:
If the answer is "Yes" to Item 6G(2) below, complete an Investigation DRP.
If the answer is "Yes" to any question below in Item 6H, complete a Civil Judicial Action DRP.
(1) Has any domestic or foreign court ever:
If the answer is "Yes" to any question below in Item 6I, complete a Customer Complaint/Arbitration/Civil Litigation DRP.
If the answer is "Yes" to any question below in Item 6J, complete a Termination DRP.
Has the individual ever voluntarily resigned, been discharged or permitted to resign after allegations were made that accused him or her of:
Within the past 10 years:
If the answer is "Yes" to any question below in Item 6M, complete a Judgment/Lien DRP.
NOTE: In addition to completing Item 7, to the extent that the individual is a non-resident, a Form MA-NR completed and signed by the individual must be attached as an exhibit to this Form MA-I.
By typing a name in the signature field, the signatory acknowledges and represents that the entry constitutes in every way, use, or aspect, his or her legally binding signature.
The municipal advisory firm has obtained and retained written consent from the individual that service of any civil action brought by, or notice of any proceeding before, the SEC or any self-regulatory organization in connection with the individual's municipal advisory activities may be given by registered or certified mail to the individual's address given in Item 1.
I, the undersigned, sign this Form MA-I on behalf of, and with the authority of, the municipal advisory firm that is filing this form. The municipal advisory firm and I both certify, under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America, that the information and statements made in this Form MA-I, including exhibits and any other information submitted, are true and correct, and that I am signing this Form MA-I as a free and voluntary act.
The individual named below consents that service of any civil action brought by, or notice of any proceeding before, the SEC or any self-regulatory organization in connection with the individual's municipal advisory activities may be given by registered or certified mail to the individual's address given in Item 1.
I, the undersigned, certify, under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America, that the information and statements made in this Form MA-I, including exhibits and any other information submitted, are true and correct, and that I am signing this Form MA-I Execution Page as a free and voluntary act.
Full Legal Name of Municipal Advisor:
Enter all the letters of each name and not initials or other abbreviations. If no middle name, enter NMN on that line.
Warning: Intentional misstatements or omissions of fact constitute Federal criminal violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).12.