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Periculum Advisors, LLC (“PA”) firm-wide business contingency plan is to respond to a Significant Business Disruption (“SBD”) by securing employees’ safety and firm property, making financial and operational assessments, promptly recovering and resuming operations, protecting all of the firm’s books and records, and allowing our clients to conduct business with the firm.

Significant Business Disruptions (SBDs)

Our plan anticipates two kinds of SBDs, internal and external. Internal SBDs affect only our firm’s ability to communicate and do business, such as a fire or power outage in one of our facilities. External SBDs such as a terrorist attack, a city flood, or a wide-scale regional disruption may prevent the operation of the securities markets, its participants, and other securities and investment banking firms. Our response to an external SBD relies heavily on the availability of other organizations, particularly our communications and market data providers.

Approval and Execution Authority

PA’s business continuity and disaster recovery plan is reviewed and approved by Senior Management.

Plan Location and Access

Our firm will maintain copies of its BCP plan and the annual reviews, and the changes that have been made to it for inspection by regulators. Members of the BCP team have additional copies of the plan stored off-site.

Business Description

PA is an investment banking advisory firm headquartered in Carmel, IN, providing:

 

  • Investment banking advisory services
  • Placements of private corporate debt and equity securities

 

Office Locations

Our firm has one primary office located in Carmel, IN.

Alternative Physical Location(s) of Employees

In the event of an SBD, we will move our staff from affected offices to the closest of our unaffected office locations. If none of our other office locations is available to receive those staff, critical employees will be instructed to work from home.

Data Back-Up and Recovery (Hard Copy and Electronic)

PA uses a third-party provider to back up its electronic records on a nightly basis. These backups are stored off-site and retrieved on an as-needed basis.

In the event of an internal or external SBD that causes the loss of our paper records, we will physically recover them from our back-up site. If our primary site is inoperable, we will continue operations from our back-up site or an alternate location. For the loss of electronic records, we will either physically recover the storage media or electronically recover data from our back-up site, or, if our primary site is inoperable, continue operations from our back-up site or an alternate location.

Financial and Operational Assessments

Operational Risk

In the event of an SBD, we will immediately contact our electronic file services provider and our email provider to identify what means will permit us to communicate with our clients, employees, and critical business constituents, including the SEC and FINRA. Although the effects of an SBD will determine the means of alternative communication, the communications options we will employ will include our website, telephone voice mail, and message blasting capabilities. In addition, we will retrieve our key activity records as described in the section above, Data Back-Up and Recovery (Hard Copy and Electronic).

Financial and Credit Risk

In the event of an SBD, we will determine the value and liquidity of our investments and other assets to evaluate our ability to continue to fund our operations and remain in capital compliance. We will contact our critical banks and investors to apprise them of our financial status. If we determine that we may be unable to meet our obligations to those counter-parties, or otherwise continue to fund our operations, we will request additional financing from our bank or other credit sources to fulfill our obligations to our customers and clients. If we cannot remedy a capital deficiency, we will file appropriate notices with our regulators and immediately take appropriate action.

Mission Critical Systems

Our firm’s “mission critical systems” are those that ensure prompt and accurate retention of client data and records entrusted to us as well as information required to be maintained by our business needs and regulatory requirements. We will use our mission critical database to maintain, verify, and reference mission critical applications firm-wide.

We have primary responsibility for establishing and maintaining our business relationships with our clients and have sole responsibility for our mission critical functions.

Our service bureau and market data vendors represent that nightly backs-up are performed, and could be restored at a remote operating facility in a geographically separate area with the capability to conduct the same volume of business as its primary site. Our service bureau has also confirmed the effectiveness of its back-up arrangements to recover from a widescale disruption by periodic testing.

Recovery-time objectives provide concrete goals to plan for and test against. They are not, however, hard and fast deadlines that must be met in every emergency situation, and various external factors surrounding a disruption, such as time of day, scope of disruption, and status of critical infrastructure—particularly telecommunications—can affect actual recovery times. Recovery refers to the restoration of communication and record retention systems after a wide-scale disruption.

Alternate Communications Between the Firm and its Clients and Employees

Clients

We currently communicate with our clients using the telephone, email, our website, fax, U.S. mail, and in-person visits at our firm or at the client’s location. In the event of an SBD, we will assess which means of communication are still available to us, and use the means closest in speed and form (written or oral) to the means that we have used in the past to communicate with the other party. Options would be available to check on the status of systems and facility access or to leave a message with a member of the firm.

Employees

We currently communicate with our employees using the telephone, email, and in person. In the event of an SBD, we will assess which means of communication are still available to us, and use the means closest in speed and form (written or oral) to the means that we have used in the past to communicate with the other party. We will also employ a call tree so that senior management can reach all employees quickly during an SBD. The call tree includes all staff home, office, pager, and cell phone numbers. Options would be available to check on the status of systems and facility access or to leave a message with a member of the firm.

4 Carter Green, Suite 200,
Carmel, IN 46032 
Tel 317.636.1800 | Fax 317.636.1801

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