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Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

An Alternative Listing Strategy for U.S. and Canadian Capital Markets

U.S. emerging growth companies face many challenges in today’s dynamic capital market when considering going public. One historic obstacle has been the limited number of national exchanges available, with companies usually...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

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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Overhaul of the UK Listing Regime Continues - A Consideration of the FCA’s Most Recent Proposals Which Are Most Relevant to Growth...

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On 3 May 2023, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) published significant further proposals in a consultation paper (CP23/10) for reforming the UK listing regime....more

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The FCA’s Chief Executive Updates UK Market on Continued UK Listing Regime Reforms: A Consideration of Which Reforms Will Most...

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On 29 March 2023, the chief executive of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Nikhil Rathi, delivered a speech at the Global Investment Management Summit in London on the wider UK capital markets ecosystem, which...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

2022 Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation Report Presents Interesting Data on the Capital Markets

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation issued on December 16, 2022 its 2022 Annual Report to the U.S. Congress and to the SEC detailing how entrepreneurs,...more

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London’s Efforts to Facilitate Secondary Capital Raisings Continue: UK Pre-emption Group Issues Updated Statement of Principles

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On 4 November 2022, the Pre-Emption Group (“PEG”) published an updated Statement of Principles: Disapplying pre-emption rights reflecting certain recommendations of the UK Secondary Capital Raising Review (the “SCRR”) which...more

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Late-Stage GC Insights: Navigating the Road to an IPO

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Fenwick corporate partner Ran Ben-Tzur recently led a small group discussion, “How can GCs identify, prepare for, and respond to pitfalls on the road to IPO?” at TechGC’s IPO Conference held in San Francisco. Below are some...more

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German Government publishes key points to improve the German capital market

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The German capital market needs to be modernized to remain efficient and competitive. Therefore, the German Government published a paper outlining a German Future Financing Act (Zukunftsfinanzierungsgesetz)1 on 29 June 2022,...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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Efforts to Elevate London as a Listing Venue of Choice for Growth Companies Continue - Publication of the UK Secondary Capital...

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​​​​​​​The latest proposals for reforming the UK equity capital markets, in response to Lord Hill’s UK Listing Review of March 2021 (the Listing Review), have been announced following the publication of the UK Secondary...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

U.S. Capital Markets Regulations Affecting U.S. Companies - August 2022

Capital markets in the United States provide an unparalleled source of investment capital, measured in trillions of dollars. U.S. markets and rules allow companies to raise funds on an expedited and economically efficient...more

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New Space Investments and Acquisitions Take Off

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This article is the first of a series by the Perkins Coie New Space industry group on developments in the "new space" industry. Responsible for lowering the cost to access space, the "new space" industry has been developing...more

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The Latham FPI Guide: Accessing the US Capital Markets From Outside the United States - 2021 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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UK Listings Review: Do New Recommendations Change The Game For Tech And Life Sciences Companies?

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The review of the UK Listing Rules was launched by HM Treasury (the Treasury) late last year and has made a number of wide-ranging recommendations of relevance for our tech and life sciences clients who have ambitions to go...more

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Help for Fast Growth Companies in the UK’s 2021 Budget

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In response to an unprecedented year of pandemic and economic crisis, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivered a Budget to offer continued support to the economy and an early view of what he believes the post-pandemic and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The Rise of Equity Capital Markets in Greater China

1. Greater China’s Stock Markets Power Ahead - With governments looking to boost the growth of domestic equity markets, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) has been trumpeting the benefits of its new regimes for emerging...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

SEC Adopts Changes to Accredited Investor Definition

On August 26, 2020, Jay Clayton, Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), released a Statement on Modernization of the Accredited Investor Definition. This Statement reflects the SEC’s commitment to...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Annual Report of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation

The Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation published its annual report to the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the U.S. Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the US House of...more

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SEC Small Entity Compliance Guide on Testing the Waters

The SEC’s amendment to the test-the-waters provisions, extending the ability to test-the-waters to issuers that are not emerging growth companies (“EGCs”), is now effective. The guide summarizes the provisions of new Rule...more

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EGC IPOs and IPO Registration Statement Trends in 2019

IPOs in 2019 have raised more capital across a smaller number of deals, as we have previously blogged. EY’s recent Trends in US IPO Registration Statements report notes that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Public Companies & the Law

Let's talk about gun jumping . . .

WeWork, rebranded as The We Company earlier this year, officially withdrew its IPO registration statement on September 30, 2019. The company has had an unusually rocky ride from its August 14, 2019 public filing to an outcome...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Capital Markets & Public Companies Quarterly: Changes to SEC Review of Shareholder Proposals, Expansion of Testing-the-Waters,...

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In the third quarter of 2019, the SEC Staff announced major changes to the standard no-action request review and response process relating to shareholder proposals. In addition, the SEC expanded the availability of...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

SEC Expands "Test-the-Waters" Communications For All Companies

On September 26, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted Rule 163B permitting all companies to use test-the-waters (TTW) communications. This change will enable all companies to take advantage of practices...more

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SEC Adopts Final Rule on “Test-the-Waters” Communications

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On September 25, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") adopted Rule 163B under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), which permits all issuers, including business development...more

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SEC Extends "Test the Waters" to All Issuers

On September 26, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it had voted to adopt new Rule 163B, extending the "test the waters" accommodations previously available only to emerging growth...more

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