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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 +

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

Latham & Watkins LLP on 9/11/2024

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

The Jobs Act Did Not Raise IPO Underpricing

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 7/26/2022

In their study and accompanying paper, “The Jobs Act Did Not Raise IPO Underpricing” Omri Even-Tov, Panos N. Patatoukas and Young S. Yoon, review the effects of the JOBS Act on emerging growth company (EGCs) IPOs. The JOBS...more

Blog: Equity Crowdfunding – Is It For You?

Cooley LLP on 8/3/2020

Entrepreneurs often ask whether equity crowdfunding is a viable option for funding their company. As is often the case with questions to an attorney, the answer is “it depends”. In 2012, when President Obama signed into law...more

EGC IPOs and IPO Registration Statement Trends in 2019

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 11/18/2019

IPOs in 2019 have raised more capital across a smaller number of deals, as we have previously blogged. EY’s recent Trends in US IPO Registration Statements report notes that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)...more

Blockchain Week in Review - July 2019

Perkins Coie on 7/19/2019

U.S. Developments - Regulatory Developments - SEC and FINRA Issue Joint Statement on Digital Asset Custody Issues - On July 8, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry...more

On the Rise Again? A Look at Trends in the U.S. IPO Market

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 9/6/2018

Since the financial crisis, the IPO market has been somewhat volatile, but in the last few quarters, the market has shown growth. ...more

SEC Extends Key JOBS Act Benefit for All IPOs and Recently Public Companies

Fenwick & West LLP on 7/6/2017

On June 29, 2017 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it would permit all companies registering for an initial public offering to take advantage of the confidential review process that was previously...more

The Snap IPO: Speculation Without (Board) Representation

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 3/7/2017

The just completed IPO of Snap Inc. has received enormous buzz and plenty of press coverage, mostly about its eye-popping valuation and offering proceeds, the big winners among the founders and early investors and the...more

Valuation Disconnect Leads to 2016 IPO Drought

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 1/3/2017

2016 turned out to be a terrible year for IPOs, both in terms of number of deals and aggregate proceeds. According to Renaissance Capital’s U.S. IPO Market 2016 Annual Review, only 105 companies went public on U.S....more

TechConnect - Your Law Firm Link to Industry News - September 2016

Mintz on 9/29/2016

Letter from the Editors - Dear Readers, The world of raising capital for emerging companies has experienced a revolution. Prior to the enactment of the JOBS Act in 2012, raising capital for private companies was...more

Various Ways to Raise Capital

Mintz Edge on 9/21/2016

The world of raising capital has been evolving over the last several years. Offerings of securities generally used to fall into two main buckets: (i) private placements under the old Rule 506 or (ii) a public offering. With...more

BIO Publishes Study on Capital Raising for Emerging Therapeutic Companies

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act on 5/26/2016

On May 24, 2016, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) published a study, “Emerging Therapeutic Company Investment and Deal Trends,” which collects ten years of data to identify trends affecting “emerging...more

2016 Venture Capital Report

WilmerHale on 3/28/2016

The 2016 Venture Capital Report provides an in-depth analysis of, and outlook for, the US and European venture capital markets. The report features industry and regional breakdowns, and a look at trends in venture capital...more

2015 Year-End IPO Market Review

WilmerHale on 2/4/2016

The 2015 IPO market produced 152 IPOs, a disappointing tally that lagged well behind the 244 IPOs in 2014 despite continued strength in the life sciences sector. Setting aside the anomalous years of 2008 and 2009, however,...more

NYSE Announces Listing Stats for 2015

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act on 12/23/2015

Last week, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Group announced that it had raised $136 billion from 397 transactions, including IPOs and follow-on financings, in 2015. 59 of these transactions were IPOs, raising $19.1...more

Crowdfunding Regulations

Troutman Pepper on 11/4/2015

On October 30, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final crowdfunding rules. More than two years after the publication of the proposed crowdfunding rules, the SEC approved regulations that permit...more

SEC Adopts Rules to Permit Crowdfunding: Proposes Amendments to Existing Rules to Facilitate Intrastate and Regional Securities...

Orrick - Finance 20/20 on 11/3/2015

On October 30, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules under Title III of the JOBS Act (“Regulation Crowdfunding”) to permit a company to offer and sell securities through crowdfunding transactions that...more

They've Arrived: Long-Awaited Federal Crowdfunding Rules Adopted by SEC

Baker Donelson on 11/2/2015

On October 30, 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted three to one to adopt equity crowdfunding rules pursuant to Title III of the Jumpstart Our Business Startup Act of 2012 (JOBS Act)....more

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