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 Brazilian capital markets regulator, the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (the “CVM”), has recently reformulated the regulatory framework for public offerings in Brazil. ...more
NASDAQ continues to propose and enact temporary rules to provide relief to the NASDAQ-listed companies affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting market uncertainty. To streamline such companies’ access to capital,...more
[author: Trevor Starer] The use of social media raises many securities law and compliance challenges for issuers, broker-dealers, and investment advisers. This Compliance Guide summarizes briefly some key principles. ...more
This week the SEC Division of Economic and Risk Analysis published a new report including a wealth of data regarding recent trends in public offerings and private placements of securities. The report includes a number of...more
On April 12, 2017, FINRA issued three Regulatory Notices requesting comments on proposed changes to various rules relating to financing transactions. Regulatory Notice 17-14 requests comment on all of FINRA’s existing...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted final rules modernizing and expanding the ways in which smaller companies can raise capital. Rule 147 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, provides a safe...more
On October 26, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules that modernize how companies can raise money to fund their businesses through intrastate and regional securities offerings....more
The SEC has adopted final rules to modernize intrastate securities offerings under Rule 147, adopted new Rule 147A to broaden the availability of the existing safe harbor for intrastate securities offerings and amended Rule...more
As has been widely noted, the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed amending Rule 147 under the Securities Act of 1933. That Rule provides a safe harbor for compliance with the Section 3(a)(11) exemption from...more
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
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