On March 12, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued a No-Action Letter that provided guidance regarding the ways issuers can satisfy the accredited investor verification requirements of offerings made...more
4/3/2025
/ Accredited Investors ,
Capital Markets ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Investment ,
New Guidance ,
No-Action Letters ,
Private Funds ,
Regulation D ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Rule 506(c) ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation
Recent regulatory developments in the crypto asset and financial technology space suggest that US regulators may be shifting toward a more balanced approach — one that prioritizes clearer regulations while fostering...more
2/19/2025
/ Blockchain ,
CFTC ,
Cryptoassets ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Digital Assets ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Executive Orders ,
FinTech ,
Investor Protection ,
OCC ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Trump Administration
It has been almost seven months since issuers across the country began raising money through Regulation Crowdfunding (“Reg CF”), which went into effect on May 16, 2016. In the six months since Reg CF went into effect, 160...more
Letter from the Editors -
Dear Readers,
Our client, Benji Cohen, was running an Energy Markets Division at Macquarie when he had a lightbulb moment. Everywhere he looked valuation models were being put together in...more
On December 4, 2015, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (the “FAST Act”) was signed into law by President Obama. Although the FAST Act is primarily a transportation bill, buried in this legislation is a new...more
Letter from the Editors -
Welcome to the second issue of Mintz Levin’s TechConnect — our bi-monthly newsletter on “all things technology” in the legal and business world, from our perspective, of course. This issue...more
12/29/2015
/ B Corporation ,
Broadcasting ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Crowdfunding ,
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) ,
FinTech ,
Global Intermediary Identification Number (GIIN) ,
IRIS ,
JOBS Act ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Socially Responsible Investments ,
Solar Energy
Three and a half years after the passage of the JOBS Act, the SEC on October 30, 2015 adopted final rules for Title III of that Act, more popularly known as equity crowdfunding and dubbed by the SEC as “Regulation...more
Earlier this month the SEC issued concurrently (i) the Citizen VC No Action Letter (in response to a request for guidance authored by Mintz Levin) relating to the use of 506(b) for a private placement online and (ii) a series...more
The SEC has recently provided clarity as to how an issuer of securities can conduct a private placement in a password protected web page under Rule 506(b), without it being deemed a “general solicitation” and thereby being...more
When the JOBS Act was passed in the spring of 2012, all the “buzz” was about the imminent advent of “Crowdfunding.” But as legal practitioners, business persons, and pundits looked closer at the details under the Crowdfunding...more