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Client Alert: SEC Provides New Guidance Regarding Accredited Investor Verification in Rule 506© Offerings

Under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), general solicitation of prospective purchasers is permitted if the issuer takes reasonable steps to verify the purchasers’...more

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New SEC Staff Guidance on Verification of Investor Accreditation in Private Placements Involving General Solicitation

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On March 12, 2025, the SEC staff confirmed in a no-action letter that issuers may rely on high minimum investment levels, as well as investor self-certification of accredited status, in private offerings involving general...more

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Latham Letter Begins New Era for Private Capital Fundraising

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Interpretive guidance unlocks general solicitation in Regulation D offerings with user-friendly, bright-line approach. On March 12, 2025, Latham & Watkins obtained SEC Staff guidance on the use of general solicitation in...more

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SEC Staff Expands Confidential Review Accommodations for Certain Issuers and Transactions

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On March 3, 2025, the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued new guidance, effective immediately, significantly expanding the ability of companies to...more

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SEC Adopts Rules and Guidance on SPACs

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On January 24, 2024, the SEC adopted rules and guidance to impose a variety of new requirements on SPACs. The effective date of the rules is 125 days after publication in the Federal Register, an unpredictable process that...more

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SEC Releases New Guidance on Tailored Shareholder Reports

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On January 19, 2024, the Division of Investment Management staff at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), released several responses to frequently asked questions (FAQs) related to the adoption of rules and form...more

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SEC Fee Rate Advisory

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that the fees that public companies and other issuers pay to register their securities with the SEC will increase from $92.70 per million dollars to $110.20 per million...more

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SEC Issues Guidance on Accounting for Safeguarding Crypto Assets

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In light of an increasing number of companies that give platform users the ability to transact in crypto assets and provide a service to safeguard such assets, the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued Staff...more

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U.S. SEC Staff Issues Guidance Regarding On-Going Exchange Act Reporting And Registered Securities Offerings In Light Of COVID-19

On May 4, 2020, the U.S. SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) published four “FAQs” relating to the application of the Commission’s March 25, 2020 Order (the “COVID-19 Order”) providing extended deadlines for...more

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Investment Services Regulatory Update - December 2018

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New Rules, Proposed Rules, Guidance and Alerts – NEW RULES – SEC Adopts New Rules Permitting Covered Investment Fund Research Reports – On November 30, 2018, the SEC adopted Rule 139b under the Securities Act of...more

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SEC Issues Guidance Regarding Application Of Securities Laws to Blockchain Technologies

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On November 16, 2018, the Divisions of Corporation Finance, Investment Management, and Trading and Markets of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a Statement on Digital Asset Securities Issuance and...more

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SEC Determines That Certain Virtual Tokens Are Securities

On July 26, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an investigative report concluding that certain tokens (or coins) offered and sold by The DAO, a virtual organization, were securities under the Securities...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

New SEC Guidance for Rule 144A/Exxon Capital Debt Exchanges

For decades companies have privately issued nonconvertible debt securities to large, sophisticated investors (usually in a Rule 144A transaction) and agreed to exchange those unregistered securities for subsequently issued,...more

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SEC’s Division of Investment Management Issues Guidance on Revising Fund Disclosure in Light of Changing Market Conditions

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On March 2, 2016, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Division of Investment Management issued new guidance (the “Guidance”) to registered investment companies and their investment advisers regarding the dynamic...more

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SEC Issues Guidance Clarifying Rule 144(d)(1) Holding Period Requirements For REIT Shares Exchanged For Operating Partnership...

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On March 14, 2016, the staff of the SEC's Division of Corporate Finance issued a no-action letter (the "No-Action Letter") concluding that, for purposes of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended...more

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A Compilation of Enforcement and Non-Enforcement Actions

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Non-Enforcement Cybersecurity Is At the Top of SEC Examination Concerns In a recent SEC “risk alert” for registered broker-dealers and investment advisers, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE)...more

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