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Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: January 1, 2024

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The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic summary of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges....more

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

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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

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Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: March 1, 2023

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The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic summary of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. ...more

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Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: April 1, 2023

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The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic summary of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. ...more

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Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: May 1, 2023

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The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic summary of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges. ...more

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Nutter Securities Enforcement Update: July 1, 2023

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The Nutter Securities Enforcement Update is a periodic summary of noteworthy recent securities enforcement activity, settlements, decisions, and charges....more

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The Latham FPI Guide: Accessing the US Capital Markets From Outside the United States - 2022 Edition

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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

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The Latham Global IPO Guide - 2021 Edition

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This is our global initial public offering guide. It will help you navigate the US portion of a global IPO – in other words, an IPO in which you sell locally listed ordinary shares to investors outside the United States under...more

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Going Dark: Deregistration in the COVID-19 Era

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Economic uncertainty is driving some public companies to weigh the advantages of exiting the SEC disclosure regime by deregistering, or “going dark.” Public companies affected by market conditions and overwhelmed by the...more

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REIT Advisor – March 2020 pt 2

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The rapidly developing news on the spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) in the United States and other nations across the world has resulted in significant turmoil in global financial markets, bringing renewed...more

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

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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

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Southern District Of New York Dismisses Claim That Underwriter Of Regulation A+ Offering Was A Seller Of Unregistered Securities,...

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On April 11, 2019, Judge Denise Cote of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted in part and denied in part an underwriter’s motion to dismiss a putative class action lawsuit filed...more

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SEC Proposes to Expand “Test-the-Waters” Modernization Reform to All Issuers

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On February 19, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) proposed new rule 163B under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), which would permit all issuers, not just Emerging...more

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Exchange Act Reporting Companies Receive Green Light to Use Regulation A

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SEC adopts final rules to allow reporting companies to use Regulation A to conduct unregistered securities offerings. Reporting companies may use Regulation A to conduct securities offerings of up to $50 million in a...more

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Regulation A May Prove Useful Alternative to Form S-4 Registration for Public Companies Doing Smaller M&A Deals

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Last month, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced it had adopted final rules to amend certain parts of Regulation A promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (“Securities Act”). These new rules...more

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SEC Adopts Final Rule Expanding Regulation A Exemption to Exchange Act Reporting Companies

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week adopted a final rule amending Regulation A to broaden eligibility for its exemption from full SEC registration. ...more

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SEC Reporting Companies Now Regulation A+ Eligible

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On December 19, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued final rules to permit reporting companies under the Securities Exchange Act to offer securities under Regulation A (affectionately referred to often as...more

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SEC Adopts Final Rules to Allow Exchange Act Reporting Companies to Use Regulation A

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules to allow reporting companies to rely on the Regulation A exemption to conduct securities offerings of up to $50 million in a 12-month period without Securities...more

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Getting to a Fully Operational Token Platform

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This article discusses recommended strategies for token issuers to finance and develop fully operational and legally compliant token platforms through financing efforts and token distribution plans that are structured early...more

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

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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

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U.S. Public Companies: Calculating Your Public Float – What You Need to Know

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If you are a year-end U.S. public company, your second fiscal quarter has recently come to an end, which means that it’s time to calculate your public float to see if your reporting status has changed. Here are a few things...more

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SEC Shortens Settlement Cycle to T+2

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On March 22, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a rule amendment that will shorten the standard settlement cycle by one business day for most broker-dealer securities transactions. The standard settlement...more

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Corporate Finance Alert: SEC Adopts T+2 Settlement Cycle for Securities Transactions

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On March 22, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted an amendment to Securities Exchange Act Rule 15c6-1(a) to shorten the standard settlement cycle for most broker-dealer securities transactions from three...more

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Global IPO Guide - 2017 Edition

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WorldWide Widgets, a non-US e-commerce company, is considering going public. In addition to offering its locally listed stock to investors outside the United States, WWW would like to sell to investors inside the United...more

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Eleventh Circuit Confirms that Issuers are not Required to Disclose Retention of Outside Promotional Firms

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On December 15, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a securities class action against Galectin Therapeutics Inc., a Georgia-based biotechnology company. The suit...more

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