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Key Takeaways From the Fund Finance Association 2024 Global Leadership Summit

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The Pine Cliffs Resort hosted the FFA’s 2024 Global Leadership Summit this week where key players and leaders from across the industry gathered to discuss macroeconomic, geopolitical, policy, legal, regulatory and other...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

What Legal Trends are Impacting MicroCap Issuers in 2024?

The legal and regulatory landscape for MicroCap investing is ever-evolving, including challenges involving compliance with the rules of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and securities exchanges including...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

UK Government Consults on World’s First Regulated Public-Private Crossover Market

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UK Chancellor launches consultation on the proposed Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES) as part of the Spring Budget. On 6 March 2024, HM Treasury published a consultation paper seeking...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Investor Advisory Committee Meets and Considers Various Private Placement Related Topics

On September 21, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC”) Investor Advisory Committee (“IAC”) met to consider certain matters included on the SEC’s rulemaking agenda for this fall, such as exempt...more

Hogan Lovells

Pre-Emption Group’s revised Statement of Principles – emerging trends from this year’s AGMs

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It’s been nearly six months since the Pre-Emption Group (PEG) published its revised Statement of Principles on Disapplying Pre-emption Rights (Principles) and corresponding template resolutions. The revised Principles support...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Changing Trends in Private Capital

According to data aggregated by Carta, an ownership and equity management platform, private capital raising trends noticeably shifted in 2022. Companies in Carta’s database raised $107 billion in 6,123 deals in 2022. Overall,...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Life Sciences Snapshot – A Quarterly Report on Financing Trends – Q1 2023

This report series examines quarterly trends in life sciences venture investment. Key findings for Q4 2022 include: • Deal value reached $7.1 billion in Q4 across 392 deals, bringing the 2022 annual total to $38.0 billion...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

HKEX Initiatives Present Opportunities Even in a Down Market

Like other global financial centers, Hong Kong has seen falling IPO volumes and volatile markets in 2022 in the face of challenging macroeconomic conditions and rising geopolitical tensions, including between China and the...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

CSA Welcomes New Capital Raising Prospectus Exemption for Listed Issuers

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Seasoned reporting issuers with equity securities listed on a Canadian stock exchange will have the ability to raise capital (up to the greater of $5 million and 10% of their market capitalization (to a maximum of $10...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Inflation Adjustments to Thresholds for EGC Definition and Regulation Crowdfunding Become Effective

Effective September 20, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) increased the annual gross revenue threshold to qualify for emerging growth company (EGC) status from $1.07 billion to $1.235 billion. ...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Recalibrating Regulation of Private Markets?

In various public statements of late, representatives of the Securities and Exchange Commission have noted concern regarding the growth of the private markets.  The statements have pointed to the fact that fundraising in the...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Feds Charge Hwang with Securities Fraud Over Massive Archegos Collapse

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On Wednesday, federal authorities arrested Archegos Capital Management’s Bill Hwang and the company’s former CFO Patrick Halligan over an alleged “stock manipulation scheme they called staggering in size and brazen in its...more

Burr & Forman

FINRA’S 2022 Report on Examination & Risk Monitoring Program

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Over the last couple of decades, the securities self-regulatory organization FINRA (f/k/a NASD) informs its membership each year of what compliance risks are noted by its examination program. Those are risks firms should...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

What’s the Deal? – Initial Public Offerings: Filing and Post-Filing Period

Here’s the deal: - Filing the registration statement is a crucial part of an initial public offering (“IPO”), and during the filing period the company must engage with the SEC Staff and respond to its comments with...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

What’s the Deal? – Initial Public Offerings: An Introduction

Here’s the deal: - An initial public offering (“IPO”) refers to the initial offering by a company of a class of its equity securities, usually with a contemporaneous listing of that class of securities on a national...more

Morgan Lewis

Singapore Is Looking to Bring In SPACS

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The Singapore Exchange has launched a consultation on proposed rules governing special purpose acquisition companies. SPACS DEFINED - Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are shell or “blank cheque” entities...more

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SEC Warns SPAC Targets the Road May be Difficult

The SEC issued two pieces of guidance on special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs.  One piece, styled as a statement by Paul Munter, Acting Chief Accountant, speaks to financial reporting and auditing considerations of...more

Sullivan & Worcester

SEC Publishes Sample Comments re: Stock Price Volatility

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The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance published an "illustrative letter" with sample comments that it may issue to companies seeking to raise capital in securities offerings amid market and price volatility. These will...more

Morgan Lewis

SEC Approves NYSE Rules Allowing Companies to Raise Money in Registered Direct Offerings

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has approved New York Stock Exchange rule changes that will grant the exchange discretion to allow companies to raise money by selling common shares in registered direct offerings,...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Speaks: Promoting Growth in the Public Markets

During the annual Practising Law Institute’s SEC Speaks, Commissioner Lee discussed the state of public markets and public offerings.  The Commissioner addressed the shift toward continued reliance on the private markets...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Introducing The Up-SPAC Structure

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As the pace of SPAC IPOs continues to set records, evolution of the economic terms has accelerated. We have seen changes to the warrant and promote structure (including “tontine” warrants), call rights motivating cashless...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

IPO Underpricing & Behavioral Theories

In a law journal note titled “The Seller’s Curse and the Underwriter’s Pricing Pivot:  A Behavioral Theory of IPO Pricing,” author Patrick Corrigan considers various theories advanced to explain IPO underpricing.  Given that...more

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Private Market Investing Not Just for the Wealthy Anymore?

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The Securities Exchange Commission expanded the definition of “accredited investor” by adding new categories of investors that have sufficient investment knowledge and expertise to participate in private investment...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Newly Approved Direct Listing Capital Raising Alternative On Hold Pending SEC Review

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For a fleeting moment, companies had the ability to raise capital on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) in connection with a direct listing (“primary direct listing”). On August 26, 2020, the Securities and Exchange...more

Mintz Edge

COVID-19 and Down-Round Financings

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Although no one can predict the long-term economic impact of COVID-19, early indications show similarities to the last significant economic downturn that started in 2008. During that period, venture capital investment...more

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