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The Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups Act Emerging Growth Companies Regulation S-K

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

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

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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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JOBS Act Related Technical Amendments

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted technical amendments to conform several rules and forms to amendments made to the Securities Act of 1933 (“Securities Act”) and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934...more

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FAST Relief from Some Securities Law Requirements

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The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act), which became law in December 2015, contained important federal securities law changes. - Among other changes, it further reduced the burdens on emerging growth...more

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Securities Law Advisory: SEC Issues Concept Release Seeking Comment on Regulation S-K

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At an open meeting of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 13, 2016, the SEC voted 3-0 to issue a concept release seeking public comment on modernizing certain disclosure requirements of Regulation S-K,...more

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Practical Guidance on FAST Act Changes to JOBS Act and SEC Disclosure Requirements

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Tucked into the 490 pages of the Highway Transportation Bill that President Obama signed into law in December 2015, known as the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) and which largely deals with...more

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Jobs Act Revamped by Fast Act

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The Jumpstart Our Business Startup Act of 2012 (the "JOBS Act") was enacted on April 5, 2012 in an effort to make it easier for certain emerging growth companies (EGCs), generally defined as companies with annual gross...more

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SEC Adopts Interim Final Rules to Implement FAST Act Provisions

On January 13, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted interim final rules to implement Sections 71003 and 84001 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (the “FAST Act”). The interim final...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Omnibus Highway Bill Contains a Grab Bag of December Surprises for Public Companies and Companies Aspiring to Go Public

In December 2015, President Barack Obama signed into law an omnibus highway bill called “Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act” or the “FAST Act.” This new law (i) amends certain sections of the Jumpstart Our Business...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Corporate Finance Alert: New Capital Formation Changes and Reduced Disclosure Burdens Enacted As Part of 'FAST Act'"

On December 4, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act), which, despite its name, contains several new provisions designed to facilitate capital formation and reduce...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

JOBS Act 2.0 – New FAST Act Legislation Signed into Law to Facilitate Capital Formation

On December 4, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (the “FAST Act”). While the legislation is aimed at providing long-term funding certainty for surface transportation, it...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

FAST Forward - A Summary of the Securities Law Provisions of the FAST Act

On December 4, 2015, President Obama signed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (“FAST Act”), which includes a number of securities law related provisions that had previously been the subject of individual bills...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act

Disclosure Overload and “Cutting the Clutter”

In various speeches recently, SEC representatives have addressed the need for disclosure reform following the December 2013 release of the JOBS Act-mandated Regulation S-K study. The disclosure review will begin by...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act

More on the SEC’s Regulation S-K Study

The SEC Staff’s recently released Report on Review of Disclosure Requirements in Regulation S-K, which was required by Section 108 of the JOBS Act, provides a starting point for revisiting broader issues regarding SEC...more

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