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Matthew Bucklin
Matthew Bucklin is a finance professional and entrepreneur. He is the Founder of ExchangiFi, a capital markets platform that enables ETF issuers to raise seed capital through Section 351 tax-deferred exchanges.
Previously, Matt launched Valley Cove Capital, a search fund focused on small business acquisition and growth, co-founded Sense Relief, a digital therapeutics company, Credible, a speech coaching app, and founded The Quit Company, a smoking cessation products platform. He began his career in asset management with MDRxFinancial and W.P. Stewart.
Matt holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Colby College. He is based in West Palm Beach, and serves as President of the Yale Club of the Palm Beaches and mentors with the Yale Entrepreneurial Society and Colby Halloran Lab.
News by Matthew Bucklin
Form 4 Has 20 Transaction Codes. None Say "Section 351 ETF Swap"
An executive wants to trade company stock for ETF shares. The tax code says that is not a sale. The SEC has another interpretation.
The $5 Trillion ETF Opportunity Hiding in Plain Sight
The ETF industry's next great asset-gathering machine is not a product, it is a tax provision from 1954.
Leveraged Long/Short Tax Alpha Is a Hotel California
The hottest tax strategy on Wall Street may also be one of the hardest to escape.
The SpaceX Trade No One’s Talking About: ETFs and the 351 Loophole
SpaceX is the test case, but the real question is whether Section 351 works for other private market shares.
Can ETFs Make Capital Gains Disappear Forever?
How a “boring” T-bill ETF revived the dual-share class structure and the powerful tax strategies ETFs use to legally defer capital gains and boost efficiency.
From Bitcoin to ETF: Inside the Section 351 Strategy Financial Advisors Are Starting to Ask About
Crypto’s biggest tax problem may already have a legal workaround hiding inside the ETF rulebook.
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