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2024 M&A Report

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While the 2022 M&A market was buoyed by deal carryover from 2021 and more conducive market conditions in the first half of the year, the 2023 M&A market felt the impact of the Federal Reserve’s most aggressive interest rate...more

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Section 409A Valuations: Mastering the Art and Science in a Volatile Venture Market

Within the unpredictable landscape of start-ups and private companies, market volatility can significantly alter a company’s financial trajectory. An integral part of navigating this volatility is understanding the role and...more

DarrowEverett LLP

Using an Unregistered Broker-Dealer for Capital Raising is a Risky Proposition

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One of the most overlooked and problematic issues concerning capital raising by small businesses, venture capital funds, and private equity funds is the use of “finders” to assist issuers with raising capital. Those who act...more

Foster Swift Collins & Smith

Do I Need a Private Placement Memorandum to Raise Investment Capital?

The short answer is that it depends, but it is usually advisable and sometimes required. Let’s dig deeper. Initially, let’s discuss what a PPM is. A PPM is a document that discloses information regarding the company that is...more

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Proposed Regulations on Built-in Gains and Losses under Section 382(h)

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On September 10, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) issued proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) on calculation of built-in gains and losses under...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Life Sciences Due Diligence: A Reference Guide for Your Life Sciences Corporate Transactions

• Life sciences companies are subject to rapidly changing regulatory obligations, government enforcement, and increasing public scrutiny. • Conducting effective legal and regulatory due diligence can mean uncovering risks...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

SEC Provides Guidance on “General Solicitation” in C&DIs and No-Action Letter

On August 6, 2015, the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Corporation Finance issued new compliance and disclosure interpretations (C&DI Questions 256.23 through 256.33) regarding the meaning...more

Sands Anderson PC

New Era in Private Capital Raising – Opening Up General Solicitation and General Advertising

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The next few years may be the largest watershed event in opening up private equity capital since the 1980s when Regulation D was first published by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). By allowing general...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

Glossary of Important Securities Regulation Terms and Definitions

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

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Crowdfunding Part 3(B): Alternatives— Accredited Crowdfunding Platform #1

We’ve been talking about crowdfunding for a while now, and we’ve started discussing alternatives to the crowdfunding exemption in Title III of the JOBS Act because that exemption is technically not final yet. Last time we...more

Dechert LLP

Why Does Everyone Want to Make Me Keep Thinking About Risk Retention

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At last count, we now have four separate risk retention regimes (maybe five) that we need (or will soon need) to deal with as we attempt to restructure any securitization. They are, of course, all different. And let’s be...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Congress Directs Changes in SBIR Program to Make Venture Capital Investment in SBIR Firms More Attractive; Proposed Rules Due in...

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The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program reserves a portion of federal agency extramural research and development (R&D) funding for small business. The program, having survived for five years on a series of...more

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