JOBS Act, Emerging Growth Companies, Public Offerings

The Latham FPI Guide: Accessing the US Capital Markets From Outside the United States - 2023 Edition

Latham & Watkins LLP on 9/12/2023

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

Financial Statement Requirements in US Securities Offerings: What You Need to Know - 2022 Edition

Latham & Watkins LLP on 1/3/2022

The most frequently asked question at all-hands meetings for a securities offering is “What financial statements will be needed?” The question seems simple enough. But the answer is rarely straightforward. This User’s...more

Financial Statement Requirements in US Securities Offerings: What Non-US Issuers Need to Know - 2020 Edition

Latham & Watkins LLP on 1/13/2020

The most frequently asked question at all-hands meetings for a securities offering is “What financial statements will be needed?” The question seems simple enough. But the answer is rarely straightforward. This User’s...more

Financial Statement Requirements in US Securities Offerings: What You Need to Know - 2020 Edition

Latham & Watkins LLP on 1/13/2020

The most frequently asked question at all-hands meetings for a securities offering is “What financial statements will be needed?” The question seems simple enough. But the answer is rarely straightforward. This User’s...more

Testing the Waters for All – New Rule 163B Expands TTW to All Issuers: First Analysis

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 11/20/2019

In this Lexis Practice Advisor Practice Note, we discuss new Rule 163B adopted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). On September 26, 2019, the SEC extended the ability to test the waters to all issuers by...more

A Rising Tide May Lift All Boats: SEC Adopts Rule 163B, Permitting All Issuers to “Test the Waters”

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 10/31/2019

The rule is an expansion of a popular modernization reform previously only available to emerging growth companies. All issuers considering a registered securities offering will now be able to engage in “testing-the-waters”...more

“Testing-the-Waters” for All

Fenwick & West LLP on 10/3/2019

On September 26, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to adopt new Rule 163B under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (Securities Act), to expand the “testing-the-waters” (TTW) accommodation —...more

Gauging Interest: SEC Votes to Approve Proposal to Expand “Test-the-Waters” Rules

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 10/3/2019

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced on September 26, 2019 that it voted to adopt the application of “testing-the-waters” rules to all issuers who engage in raising capital in the public markets. This...more

SEC Extends "Test the Waters" to All Issuers

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 10/2/2019

On September 26, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it had voted to adopt new Rule 163B, extending the "test the waters" accommodations previously available only to emerging growth...more

Impact of “Test-the-Waters” Reform Debated

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 5/30/2019

As we previously noted, in February, the SEC proposed expanding its “test-the-waters” accommodation from emerging growth companies (EGCs) only to all issuers via a new Rule 163B and related amendments. This accommodation...more

2018 IPO Report

WilmerHale on 7/27/2018

The IPO market produced 142 IPOs in 2017, a total that was 45% higher than the 98 IPOs in 2016 and just shy of the 152 IPOs in 2015, but still lower than the annual average of 155 IPOs over the five-year period from 2011 to...more

Guide to Financial Statement Requirements in US Securities Offerings by Non-US Issuers 2018

Latham & Watkins LLP on 1/5/2018

The most frequently asked question at all-hands meetings for a securities offering is “What financial statements will be needed?” The question seems simple enough. But the answer is rarely straightforward. This User’s...more

Financial CHOICE Act Aims to Open Capital Markets and Reduce Regulatory Burdens

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 6/12/2017

On June 8, 2017, the House of Representatives passed, by a 233-186 party-line vote (with all Democrats and one Republican voting against), the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017, a bill principally designed to reverse many features...more

The Short Field Guide to IPOs - 2017

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act on 1/5/2017

THE EMERGING GROWTH COMPANY - The JOBS Act created a new class of issuer: the emerging growth company (EGC). An EGC is defined as an issuer with total annual gross revenue of less than $1 billion during the most recent...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

Getting the Measure of EGC Corporate Governance Practices: A survey and related resources

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 5/8/2015

Corporate governance has changed dramatically in the nearly 13 years since passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and in the nearly five years since enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection...more

Back to the Future? (Regional Exchanges and Venture Exchanges)

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act on 3/10/2015

Last week, in connection with the meeting of the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies, both Commissioner Aguilar and Commissioner Gallagher expressed interest in, and support for, a more thorough...more

Financial Statement Requirements in US Securities Offerings: What You Need to Know 2013 Edition

Latham & Watkins LLP on 10/2/2013

The most frequently asked question at all-hands meetings for a securities offering is “What financial statements will be needed?” The question seems simple enough. But the answer is rarely straightforward. This User’s...more

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