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Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

Rule 506 Offerings Continue to be Popular with Real Estate Companies

Like an accordionist, real estate sponsors often seek to be innovative. Cutting-edge opportunities like crowdfunding and online selling platforms call to them. However, based on statistics from the Securities and Exchange...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

On the right track: Securities & Exchange Commission adopts rules to streamline private offering exemptions

On November 2, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) voted to adopt final amendments (the Amendments) to “simplify, harmonize, and improve certain aspects of the exempt offering framework.” The Securities Act...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Adopts Amendments To Exempt Offering Framework

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently adopted final rules that significantly revise the exempt offering framework, expanding access to capital markets for both issuers and investors. Key changes include the...more

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SEC Harmonizes and Improves “Patchwork” Private Offering Framework

On November 2, the SEC adopted amendments designed to harmonize and simplify the existing, complicated framework of private offering exemptions—the primary method by which private companies raise capital. The amendments...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

SEC Amends Rules to Harmonize, Simplify and Improve Exempt Offering Framework

On Nov. 2, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) approved rule amendments “to harmonize, simplify, and improve the multilayer and overly complex exempt offering framework.” The SEC believes the amendments will...more

Cozen O'Connor

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

SEC Open Meeting on Exempt Offering Framework

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced an open meeting on November 2, 2020 to consider amendments relating to the exempt offering framework.  The SEC had released proposed amendments for public comment in March...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Issues Regarding SEC Proposal to Expand Private Offering Exemptions

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”), was promoted as a new piece of legislation creating groundbreaking additional pathways to funding for companies, which was especially highlighted by the 2008...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

On track with the SEC - staff proposes rules on streamlining private exemptions

On March 4, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) issued a proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) on ways to “simplify, harmonize, and improve certain aspects of the exempt offering framework to promote capital...more

Cozen O'Connor

SEC Proposes to Expand Private Offerings

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On March 4, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed broad changes to the current private offering framework. Recognizing the growing market for private investments, this is the latest in a series of recent...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

SEC Proposes Rule Changes Relating to Exempt Offerings Which Would Include Increases to Offering Limits

On March 4, 2020, the SEC proposed a set of amendments designed to simplify and improve the exempt offering framework. The SEC's stated goal is to make it easier for issuers to access the capital markets and to provide...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Proposes Rule Changes to Exempt Offering Framework

On March 4, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) proposed amendments to the current framework of registration exemptions and safe harbors. ...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Issues Concept Release on Harmonization of Securities Offering Exemptions

On June 18, 2019, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a concept release soliciting “comment on possible ways to simplify, harmonize, and improve the exempt offering framework to promote capital formation...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Securities Rules for Private Equity Financings

In order to sell securities (notes, common stock, preferred stock, membership interests in an LLC), a company must either register the sale under federal and state securities laws or find an exemption from such registration...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Proposes to Ease Intrastate Offering Exemption to Facilitate Crowdfunding

The SEC has proposed amendments to Rule 147 under the Securities Act of 1933, which currently provides a safe harbor for compliance with the Section 3(a)(11) exemption from registration for intrastate securities offerings....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act

Uniform Disclosure Requirements: Possible or Aspirational?

Now that the Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies and various industry groups are focused on the possibilities associated with modernizing Rule 147 and possibly reviewing the requirements for the Rule 504 and...more

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