On November 2, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to amend its rules to harmonize, simplify, and improve the exempt offering framework. The SEC believes that these amendments will promote capital...more
11/19/2020
/ Crowdfunding ,
General Solicitation ,
Harmonization Rules ,
Integration ,
Investment ,
New Amendments ,
New Regulations ,
Offerings ,
Regulation A ,
Regulation D ,
Safe Harbors ,
Securities Act of 1933 ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Verification Requirements
As a further response to circumstances presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, on March 26, 2020, the SEC published new temporary final rules.The temporary final rules ease requirements regarding applications for Form ID and...more
The SEC recently adopted amendments to Regulation A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) that will allow SEC reporting companies to rely on Regulation A for their securities offerings. The...more
Many market participants were taken by surprise by the enactment of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. The JOBS Act, HR 3606, was passed by the United States House of Representatives on March 8, 2012. On March...more
2/1/2016
/ Capital Formation ,
Crowdfunding ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Emerging Growth Companies ,
Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
JOBS Act ,
Private Offerings ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Qualified Institutional Buyers ,
Registration Requirement ,
Regulation A ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Sarbanes-Oxley ,
Securities Act of 1933 ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act
On May 22, 2015, William F. Galvin, the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, filed a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeking court review of the portion of...more
Overview -
Yesterday, March 25, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously to adopt final rules to implement the rulemaking mandate of Title IV of the JOBS Act by adopting amendments to Regulation...more
This is a very brief, initial summary. We will be reporting on the final rule in an upcoming alert. The SEC’s proposed rules already had provided a very practical format for private issuers seeking to raise capital. The...more
In This Issue:
- Introduction
- The IPO on-ramp
- The IPO Process
- Applying Title I to other transactions
- Private offerings
- Crowdfunding
- Regulation A+
- Exchange...more
Overview -
Yesterday, December 18, 2013, the SEC released proposed rules to carry out the rulemaking mandate of Title IV of the JOBS Act. The proposed rules both retain and modernize the current framework of Regulation...more