News & Analysis as of September 19, 2024

The Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups Act › Asset-Backed Securities

+ Follow

The Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups Act is a United States federal law enacted in 2012 to increase start-up companies' access to capital by easing certain restrictions on seeking and soliciting private... more +

Financing Marketplace Loans: Ten Key Things to Know Before Catching the Securitization Wave

K&L Gates LLP on 1/16/2016

Marketplace loans are the most exciting securitization asset class to emerge since credit cards and student loans. Securitization provides marketplace loan investors with liquidity, diversified funding and interest rate...more

The FAST Act, New Section 4(a)(7), and Section 4(a)(1½)

Morgan Lewis on 1/5/2016

The new private resale safe harbor is unlikely to gain traction in private offerings of asset-backed securities. On December 4, 2015, US President Barack Obama signed into law the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation...more

Glossary of Important Securities Regulation Terms and Definitions

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C. on 8/20/2015

This Glossary is designed to provide law students taking Securities Regulation with a tool that will assist them in learning the basic language of securities law and achieve a working knowledge of the fundamental principles...more

SEC Remarks at the Practising Law Institute’s Program Titled “SEC Speaks in 2015”

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act on 2/25/2015

On February 20, 2015, several representatives from the SEC spoke at the Practising Law Institute’s program titled “SEC Speaks in 2015,” including Chair Mary Jo White and Commissioner Louis A. Aguilar. Ms. White provided...more

CFTC Provides Relief from Certain Agency Regulations to be Consistent with JOBS Act SEC Amendments

Orrick - Finance 20/20 on 9/23/2014

On September 9, the CFTC issued an exemptive letter, which provides relief from certain provisions of Regulations 4.7(b) and 4.13(a)(3) restricting marketing to the public. The exemptive letter harmonizes these rules with...more

5 Results

View per page