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David, how's it going, man? Oh, great.

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It's really nice to, I feel like I'm meeting a celebrity.

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No, please. I'm just, no, I'm just a normal guy doing a job, man. So David,

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for those people watching, introduce yourself and the company that you're with.

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Yeah, my name is, uh, Dave Austin, and I'm with Austin, l l p.

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So I'm an attorney. I work, uh, specifically in the MCA space, primarily for,

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you know, sales based financing as it's known now.

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So go ahead and, uh, where are you based out of?

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So my primary office is in New York,

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but I have an office I just recently opened in California,

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so we're in New York and California. I'm licensed in both states, uh,

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since California came on big with their, uh, disclosure laws as you know,

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because you've been covering it, uh,

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I thought it would be a good thing to have a presence in California as well.

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So go ahead and walk me through, I mean, being in an event like this,

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how is it helping your business?

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Oh, it,

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it's helping my business because I get to meet some of my clients face-to-face,

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you know, post covid. We're in a Zoom world, sometimes you're just on the phone.

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So that's nice.

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It's also helping my business because I get to speak to different people about

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different things. And when you share your views on like the law, the,

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the situation right now, people engage with that. They, they, they,

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this is an industry that you don't just work in. You kind of, it, it's you,

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you see the, the benefit of it, it's to small business, you know,

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and there's a part of me that just thinks the general public doesn't see it that

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way. You know, the general public doesn't see the, you know,

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MCA financing as like just a really, the,

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just an important component to so many small businesses when the banks say, no,

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no, thank you. Come back in two years, you know.

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So, Dave, walk me through, I mean,

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there's a lot of different topics that are gonna be, that have,

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that have been talked about and that are going to be talked about in the

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different panel sessions.

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So walk me through what's been one of interest to you so far?

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Well, I think the most interesting panel is the one coming up this afternoon on,

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uh, New York compliance. Uh, they have a great panel. I'm, I'm part of it,

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and I'm not saying just because I'm, I'm on the panel, uh, Hudson Cook is here,

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Chris Murray's here. Uh, so it's gonna be a great opportunity.

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I'm personally looking forward to speaking to the brokers directly.

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And this kind of goes back to your earlier question, you know, what, what,

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what do you see the benefit of here? A lot of the funders I work with, they say,

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well, okay, you're telling me how to comply,

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but how do I know my brokers are complying?

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So this gives me an opportunity to sort of reach out to the broker and say,

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you know, here's what I think you should do.

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Here's the things you should be worried about, because everyone's, you know,

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the disclosure law is affecting everyone. Yeah.

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And then, uh, last, last question is, what,

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what advice would you give to someone that's ever been to an event like this,

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or that's just starting out in the industry?

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That change that has changed within the last couple of years?

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Oh, I, if you're just starting out in the industry, you've gotta come here.

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I mean, there's really no other, no other place to come. Well,

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first thing you do is you go to the De Bank website, right.

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And you just read up on what you need to know. All the things are there.

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I think coming here is really, it's, it, it,

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it's a good thing to do because you'll make connections and you realize just how

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much funders want to meet brokers who have merchants that they're servicing.

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And I think that's really the key.

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Awesome. Well, Dave, thank you so much for chatting with us. Appreciate it, man.

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Definitely do appreciate it. And I'm gonna go ahead and let you enjoy, uh,

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the rest of, uh, the, the fair. Well.