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The Latham FPI Guide: Accessing the US Capital Markets From Outside the United States - 2024 Edition

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Fabry-Pérot Interferometer, SA is a highly successful non-US company known to the world as FPI. FPI is considering doing a debt or equity offering in the United States. What are the key legal issues it, and its underwriters...more

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EMDs Can Now Participate in Prospectus Offerings

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The securities regulators in Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec and Saskatchewan have published a temporary exemption that allows exempt market dealers (“EMDs”) to participate in prospectus...more

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Private Capital and Exempt Offering Trends in SEC OASB Report

In its Annual Report (the “Report”), the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation (OASB) provides data on the reliance by private and public companies on exempt...more

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Blind Pool REIT IPOs: Real Estate Sponsors Are Getting Ready To Jump Back In

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Coming out of the Great Recession, there was a rush by real estate sponsors to raise “blind pool” capital to take advantage of displacement and distress in the real estate market. From 2009 through 2010, 30 new public real...more

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Ripple Labs: long-awaited decision answers some questions but gives rise to further uncertainty

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In SEC v. Ripple Labs, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) alleges that Ripple Labs, Inc. and two of its executives raised over $1.3 billion through an unregistered and ongoing digital asset securities...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

UK-Listed Issuers Under Financial Stress Gain Latitude in Secondary Capital Raisings

As the U.K. faces what the Bank of England recently described as “very challenging” times, with the possibility of the U.K.’s “longest recession since records began,” issuers listed on the London Stock Exchange should pay...more

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Norway Bulletin 2022

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Market Update - We are pleased to bring you the Conyers 2022 Norway Bulletin. Our annual publication underscores the importance of the Norwegian market to our Bermuda corporate practice....more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

OSC Extends Service Commitments for Prospectus and Other Filings

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An increase in the volume and complexity of filings with the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has resulted in the temporary extension of review timelines for certain offering documents, compliance reviews, applications and...more

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Norway Practice Bulletin 2021

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Welcome to Conyers’ 2021 Norway Practice Bulletin. Our annual publication underscores the importance of the Norwegian market to our Bermuda corporate practice. The 12 months since our last issue have been very different,...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Disclosure Guidance for Offerings for Issuers with Volatile Securities

Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance issued a sample comment letter that provides guidance to issuers raising capital and that have volatile securities. ...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Why Private Capital and Crowdfunding Markets Should be Nervous about President Biden’s Regulatory Freeze

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A freeze on government regulation is generally perceived by most people as being a positive development for private enterprise.  Not necessarily so, however, when the regulation being frozen is itself a reform of preexisting...more

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Strict Traffic Rules for New Crowdfunding Vehicles – Part Three of Exempt Offering Amendments Deeper Dive

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You just raised $1 million in your crowdfunding offering under Title III/Regulation CF.  That’s the good news.  The bad news?  You now have over a thousand shareholders on your cap table, making it unwieldy, an administrative...more

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SEC Raises Threshold for Reg A+ Offerings to $75 Million; Improves “Patchwork” Exempt Offering Framework

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On November 2, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved amendments, originally proposed in the SEC’s June 2019 concept release and March 2020 proposing release, to its “patchwork” exempt offering framework. The...more

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SEC Votes to Harmonize and Improve “Patchwork” Exempt Offering Framework

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On November 2, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), by a 3 – 2 vote, amended certain rules under the Securities Act of 1933 (the Securities Act) in order to harmonize, simplify, and modernize the...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Exempt Offering Framework Amendments

On November 2, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to adopt amendments proposed in March 2020 that harmonize and modernize the exempt offering framework (referred to as the Amendments). As with...more

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SEC Harmonizes and Improves Exempt Offering Framework

The SEC adopted final rules which the SEC believes harmonizes, simplifies, and improves the complex exempt offering framework....more

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP

Raising Capital Post-COVID-19 – What Now?

Right about now, many business owners are asking themselves – what’s next?  How can I sustain my business?  Where can I obtain additional financing?  What if I need quick access to capital?  Am I out of options?...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Reopenings: Issuing Additional Debt Securities of an Outstanding Series

This practice note discusses reopenings of debt securities issuances. Companies frequently raise capital by issuing additional debt securities of the same series as debt securities outstanding under an existing indenture,...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

SEC Provides Temporary Relief from Certain Regulation Crowdfunding Requirements in Response to COVID-19

On May 4, 2020, the SEC adopted temporary final rules, in light of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, that eased Regulation Crowdfunding requirements in order to make it easier for small businesses to raise money through...more

Locke Lord LLP

SEC Proposes Sweeping Changes for Exempt Offerings

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The Securities and Exchange Commission on March 5, 2020 proposed sweeping changes to the rules governing capital raising through private offerings and other offerings exempt from registration under the Securities Act. If...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

SEC Proposes Rule Changes to Improve Private Placement Rules

On March 4, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) proposed a set of amendments to the rules and regulations under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), to simplify, harmonize and...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC’s Inaugural Capital Call

On January 23, 2020, the SEC’s Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation (the “Office”) hosted its first Capital Call, during which the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation and Director of the...more

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What to Make of SEC Leniency in Block.one ICO Settlement?

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On September 30, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that blockchain developer Block.one had agreed to pay a $24 million fine to settle charges that it had engaged in an unregistered offering of securities...more

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In tune with the SEC - staff continues dialogue on harmonizing private exemptions

On June 18, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued a concept release (the “Release”) on ways to “simplify, harmonize, and improve the exempt offering framework to expand investment opportunities while...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.6.2019 | Top Story: A Preview of Today’s U.S. August Jobs Report

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Jobs Report Friday! Here’s what to look for in the numbers – WSJ and Bloomberg and NYTimes The White House has rolled out its “long-awaited plan” to return federal mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the private...more

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