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The Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups Act Initial Public Offering (IPO) Capital Markets

The Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups Act is a United States federal law enacted in 2012 to increase start-up companies' access to capital by easing certain restrictions on seeking and soliciting private... more +
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Latham & Watkins LLP

The Latham FPI Guide: Accessing the US Capital Markets From Outside the United States - 2024 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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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

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

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

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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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The Latham FPI Guide: Accessing the US Capital Markets From Outside the United States - 2019 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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2019 IPO Report

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The IPO market produced 183 IPOs in 2018, an increase of 29% from the 142 IPOs in 2017. The year’s tally represented the second-highest annual figure since 2007, trailing only the 244 IPOs in 2014. Total gross proceeds for...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

On the Rise Again? A Look at Trends in the U.S. IPO Market

Since the financial crisis, the IPO market has been somewhat volatile, but in the last few quarters, the market has shown growth. ...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Capital Markets Alert – Public Market Advocacy Groups Release Guidance

On April 27, 2018, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Nasdaq, along with certain technology and biotechnology groups, released a policy paper titled “Expanding...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Financial CHOICE Act Aims to Open Capital Markets and Reduce Regulatory Burdens

On June 8, 2017, the House of Representatives passed, by a 233-186 party-line vote (with all Democrats and one Republican voting against), the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017, a bill principally designed to reverse many features...more

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2016 IPO Report

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Our 2016 IPO Report offers a detailed analysis of, and outlook for, the IPO market, plus useful IPO market metrics. We look at rates of adoption of JOBS Act relief by emerging growth companies, and recent FAST Act amendments...more

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Proskauer's 2016 IPO Study

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Proskauer's Global Capital Markets Group presents the third annual IPO Study, a comprehensive analysis of U.S.-listed initial public offerings in 2015 and identification of three-year comparisons and trends of U.S.-listed...more

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2015 Year-End IPO Market Review

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The 2015 IPO market produced 152 IPOs, a disappointing tally that lagged well behind the 244 IPOs in 2014 despite continued strength in the life sciences sector. Setting aside the anomalous years of 2008 and 2009, however,...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

FAST Act Amendments to Securities Laws Improve Access to Capital Markets

The new Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) builds upon several securities laws contained in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), the 2012 law that sought to expand and ease capital raising...more

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FAST Act Eases Access to Capital Markets for Small Companies and Seeks Disclosure Modernization for All Reporting Companies

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On December 4, 2015, President Obama signed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act into law. Although primarily related to infrastructure spending in the United States, the FAST Act includes a variety of...more

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Guidance for IPO Issuers

On October 28, 2015, at a Practising Law Institute program, the Securities Regulation Institute, the Director of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission joined a panel discussion on...more

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2015 BDO IPO Halftime Report — Survey finds decrease in IPO activity and increased positive sentiment towards JOBS Act

Last week, BDO USA released its 2015 IPO Halftime Report which surveyed capital markets executives from various investment banks on IPO activity and trends for 2015. The report found that the number of U.S. IPOs and...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"First-Half Activity Energizes US Capital Markets in 2014"

The U.S. equity and debt markets experienced a strong first half of the year. In the first quarter, the U.S. IPO market was the busiest since 2000, more than doubling the number of IPOs from the same period last year. ...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden's 2013 Insights: Capital Markets

2012 was a robust year for both the U.S. leveraged loan and high-yield markets, including record-breaking deal volume for the latter. These conditions provided fertile ground for borrowers and issuers in U.S. markets to fund...more

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