On November 17, 2016, the staff of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) issued four new compliance and disclosure interpretations (“C&DIs”) addressing aspects of offerings under Regulation A and Regulation D.  Highlights of the C&DIs include, among other things, the following guidance:

• An issuer that seeks to qualify an additional class of securities by a post-qualification amendment to a previously qualified offering statement under Regulation A must satisfy the requirements of Item 4 to Part I of Form 1-A by providing responses that relate only to the additional class of securities.
• A change of 20% or less in the aggregate offering price, which is permitted under the Note to Rule 253(b) of Regulation A without a post-qualification amendment, may be measured from either the high end (in the case of an increase in the offering price) or the low end (in the case of a decrease in the offering price) of that range.  However, a change of 20% or less is not permitted where the maximum aggregate offering price would result in the offering exceeding the relevant offering limit ($20 million for Tier 1 offerings and $50 million for Tier 2 offerings) or if the change would result in a Tier 1 offering becoming a Tier 2 offering.
• Consistent with the treatment of EGCs under Section 71003 of the FAST Act, a company filing or confidentially submitting an offering statement under Regulation A may omit financial information for historical periods otherwise required by Part F/S of the Form 1-A, including financial information of other entities required to be included in Part F/S.  However, the company must reasonably believe that the omitted information will not be required to be included in the offering statement at the time of qualification.
• Offers and sales of securities made in reliance on Rule 506(b) prior to the use of general solicitation in a subsequent Rule 506(c) offering will not be integrated with the offers and sales of securities made in reliance on Rule 506(c).

A copy of the C&DIs is available at: https://media2.mofo.com/documents/161118-question-182-12.pdf

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