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# SEC Amends Definition of Accredited Investor to Include Rural Business Investment Companies

  October 26, 2020

The Banking Law Journal

 

 

 

 

 

 

An article by Kelley Drye partner [Tim Lavender](/Our-People/Timothy-R-Lavender) was recently featured in *The Banking Law Journal*. The article, ​“SEC Amends Definition of Accredited Investor to Include Rural Business Investment Companies,” examines the recent expansion by the SEC of persons and entities that qualify as accredited investors and what this may mean to rural business.

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