Plural Acquires FINRA Member Northstar Financial Services LP (now Plural Brokerage LLC)
March 6, 2025
Plural, the San Francisco-based on-chain investing platform for clean energy, acquired FINRA member Northstar Financial Services LP and has renamed it Plural Brokerage LLC. The broker-dealer acquisition (with existing Northstar staff retained and Eli Wishnivetski remaining as Chief Compliance Officer) gives Plural an in-house regulatory stack—broker-dealer and transfer agent capabilities—to accelerate compliant tokenization of renewable energy assets.
- Buyers
- Plural
- Targets
- Northstar Financial Services LP
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Location
- United States
- Transaction Type
- Buyout
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