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Acting SEC Chair Outlines Plan to Make IPOs More Attractive

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Acting SEC Chair Mark T. Uyeda outlined potential regulatory changes to make IPOs more attractive and to scale public company disclosures at the Florida Bar’s 41st Annual Federal Securities Institute and M&A Conference. ...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Public Companies & the Law

SEC Expands Confidential Registration Statement Submission Process

On March 3, 2025, the Staff of the SEC Division of Corporate Finance announced an expansion of the accommodations that allow issuers to confidentially submit draft registration statements (DRSs) for nonpublic review. This is...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Re-Proposes Rules To Implement Resource Extraction Payment Disclosure Requirements

On December 18, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted in favor of proposing rules to implement the resource extraction issuer disclosure provisions in Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which added...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 11.19.2019 | Top Story: T-Mobile Chief John Legere to Leave Company in April

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T-Mobile chief and fan-of-magenta John Legere has announced that he’ll be stepping down in April at the end of his current contract. Legere will be succeeded by Mike Sievert, the carrier’s current president and COO....more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Everybody “Test-the-Waters” - SEC Expands Communications Rule to All Issuers

On September 26, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has expanded the “testing-the-waters” exemption to all issuers. The new rule and related amendments under the Securities Act of 1933, as...more

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SEC Allows ‘Test-the-Waters’ Communications for All Issuers

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We previously discussed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the SEC) proposed Rule 163B under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), and proposed amendments to Rule 405 promulgated under the...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, Featuring Articles on FINRA's Efforts to Provide Disclosure Innovations for Advertising and...

SEC/CORPORATE - New SEC Rule Expands “Test-the-Waters” to All Issuers - On September 26, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a new rule to allow all issuers, not just emerging growth companies, to utilize...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Investment Management Update - June 2019

In the inaugural issue of Investment Management Update, we summarize regulatory, litigation and industry developments from February 2019 to May 2019 impacting the investment management sector....more

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SEC Proposes "Test-The-Waters" Expansion

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On February 19, 2019, the SEC voted to propose Rule 163B under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), and amendments to Rule 405 (collectively the Proposed Rule) promulgated under the Securities Act to...more

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SEC Solicits Comments to Expand Pre-Filing Communications of Offers to Sell Securities

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On February 19, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to propose a new rule under the Securities Act of 1933 (the Securities Act), and amendments to Rule 405 (together, the Proposed Rule), to expand the...more

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Want to Test the Waters All Issuers May Soon Get Their Chance

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On February 19, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a rule that would permit all issuers to take advantage of the “test-the-waters” accommodation that has been available to emerging growth companies...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, Featuring Articles on SEC "Test-the-Water" Communications, CFTC Meetings, Third-Party Civil...

SEC/CORPORATE - SEC Proposes To Expand “Test-the-Waters” Reforms to All Issuers - On February 19, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed Rule 163B under the Securities Act of 1933, which would permit any...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Come on In, the Water’s Fine: SEC Proposes Expanding “Test-the-Waters” Communications to All Issuers

On February 19, 2019, the SEC proposed a new rule, Rule 163B, that would allow all issuers to engage in “test-the-waters” communications prior to the effectiveness of a registration statement for a public offering. The...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Easing the Prohibitions against Gun-Jumping

On February 19, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a rule that would generally permit all issuers to “jump the gun”—that is, to make offers to certain institutional investors prior to the filing of a...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Proposes to Expand “Test-the-Waters” Modernization Reform to All Issuers

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The SEC proposed a new rule and related amendments that would expand the “test-the-waters” accommodation—currently available to emerging growth companies—to all issuers, including investment company issuers. Proposed...more

Jones Day

"Test-the-Waters" Accommodations Could Be Coming to a Company Near You

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A proposed rule change would provide increased flexibility to issuers seeking to communicate with institutional investors earlier in the offering process. On February 19, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...more

Fenwick & West LLP

SEC Proposes to Expand “Testing-the-Waters” Accommodation to All Issuers

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On February 19, 2019, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to propose Rule 163B under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (Securities Act), that would expand the “testing-the-waters” accommodation —...more

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SEC Proposes to Expand “Test-the-Waters” to All Issuers

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This week the SEC proposed to expand the “test-the-waters” accommodation—currently available to emerging growth companies (EGCs)—to all issuers, including investment company issuers. The proposed rule and related amendments...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

SEC proposes to expand “testing-the-waters” provisions to all issuers

On February 19, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a proposal to expand the “testing-the-waters” exemption to all issuers. Currently the exemption is limited to emerging growth companies (EGCs)....more

Stinson LLP

SEC proposes to Expand Test-the-Waters Communications to all Issuers

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The SEC has proposed new rules that would permit all issuers to solicit investor views about potential offerings at an earlier stage in the offering process than is the case today. ...more

White & Case LLP

Hoping to Encourage Increased Participation in the Public Markets, SEC Proposes New Rule Allowing all Issuers to Test the Waters

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The SEC is proposing to extend the testing-the-waters ("TTW") accommodation to all issuers, including investment company issuers.1 Citing the dominance of the IPO market by emerging growth companies ("EGCs")2 and evidence...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Proposes New Rule 163B to Expand ‘Testing-the-Waters’ Communications to All Issuers

On February 19, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to propose a new rule and related amendments under the Securities Act that would expand the permissible use of testing-the-waters communications to...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Proposes to Expand “Test-the-Waters” Communications to all Issuers

The SEC has proposed new rules that would permit all issuers to solicit investor views about potential offerings to be taken into account at an earlier stage in the process than is the case today....more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Proposes to Expand “Test-the-Waters” Modernization Reform to All Issuers

The Securities and Exchange Commission took the long-awaited step of proposing rules for comment that would extend the ability to test the waters beyond emerging growth companies, or EGCs. ...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

SEC Proposes to Expand "Test the Waters" to All Issuers

Background On Feb. 19, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) voted to propose a rule and related rule amendments under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act)...more

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