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Initial Public Offering (IPO) Crowdfunding Small Business

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

The SEC and Capital Formation

Not long ago, the SEC hosted the Annual Small Business Forum.  The Forum provides an opportunity to consider a broad array of issues affecting private companies as well as smaller public companies seeking to raise capital and...more

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

Rule 506 Offerings Continue to be Popular with Real Estate Companies

Like an accordionist, real estate sponsors often seek to be innovative. Cutting-edge opportunities like crowdfunding and online selling platforms call to them. However, based on statistics from the Securities and Exchange...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

House Passes Eleven Bills Enabling Capital Formation

In early June, the US House of Representatives passed two sets of bills focused on promoting capital formation. The bipartisan effort included bills that amend the accredited investor definition in order to increase the...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Republicans’ Capital Formation Agenda

At the end of September 2022, Patrick McHenry, the top Republican on the House Financial Services Committee, released the Committee Republicans’ capital formation agenda. The capital formation agenda aims to build on the...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Trends in Capital Formation: The SEC’s OASB Annual Report

The SEC’s Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation (“OASB”) recently issued its 2021 Annual Report (the “Report”), which reviews the capital raising activities of a variety of companies, from startups and...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

Troutman Pepper

Regulation A+: For Smaller Companies (and ICOs) a Better Way to Go Public?

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With the proliferation of smaller companies seeking to grow their businesses, gain credibility and access capital, Regulation A+ is now increasingly being used as a fundraising tool. ...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Financial Services Law - April 2015

This special edition of the Financial Services Law Newsletter includes a series of blog posts written by Peer-to-Peer Lending and Crowdfunding partner Brian S. Korn for the LendItUSA 2015 conference to be held April 13-15 in...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act

Lender-to-thy-Neighbor: P2P Lending in Perspective

Closely related to the crowdfunding phenomenon has been the evolution of the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending model. As the early standard-bearers of P2P prepare to enter the public markets, the model itself is poised for greater...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

JOBS Act Means New Funding Opportunities for Start-Ups and Other Small Businesses

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On April 5, 2012, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act into law. The JOBS Act seeks to reduce securities law burdens on start-ups and small businesses to make capital more accessible. In a...more

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