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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

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Relief for Pre-Verified Accredited Investors May Encourage Rule 506(c) Offerings

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It’s pretty common for issuers in follow-on offerings to solicit investors from previous rounds first.  Indeed, doing so is often mandatory when early investors have preemptive rights. ...more

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

Simplified Rule 506(c) Investor Verification Takes Effect March 15

Although few might think of securities laws as “simple,” sometimes, laws are more complicated than necessary. That has been the case with accredited investor verification under Rule 506(c). But that will change when a new...more

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Using Regulation D Rule 506(c) to Raise Capital

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Raising investment capital through private offerings has always been a challenge, especially for new and emerging investment managers. COVID-19 has exasperated this challenge by significantly limiting traditional means of...more

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SEC Proposes New Accredited Investor Rule

Access to invest in private placement securities reminds me of All-State Orchestra. Private placements provide unique investment opportunities that can help investors diversify their portfolios. Yet, most private placements...more

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Regulation A+ Securities Offerings – Comparison With Alternatives And Recent Developments

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Mini-IPOs under new Reg A+ are increasingly popular for capital formation. Since the JOBS Act revamped old Regulation A in SEC rules that took effect in June 2015, 69 Reg A+ offerings raising over $611 million in total were...more

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Capital Markets Disruptor: Real Estate Crowdfunding in the United States

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Public REITs and other sponsors of real estate funds and projects have traditionally enjoyed the benefit of a broad range of choices to raise capital. Public REITs can obtain financing on a project-by-project basis or at the...more

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New Era in Private Capital Raising – Opening Up General Solicitation and General Advertising

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The next few years may be the largest watershed event in opening up private equity capital since the 1980s when Regulation D was first published by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). By allowing general...more

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New Era of Capital Raising: Sorting Through the JOBS Act’s New Capital Raising Rules

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Since the enactment of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”) in 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC“) has slowly been making its way through the titles to the JOBS Act to promulgate the final...more

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Current Marketplace Trends in Real Estate Crowdfunding

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Today, there appears to be an ever-expanding number of sponsors and markets for crowdfunding. Commercial real estate is no exception. At the recent IMN US Real Estate Opportunity & Private Fund Investing Forum, Elizabeth...more

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Types of Crowdfunding

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Philip Schroeder, Esq. discusses the types crowdfunding: • Donation Model Crowdfunding (e.g.) Kickstarter • Rewards Model Crowdfunding • Equity Crowdfuning o Sales to Accredited Investors...more

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Practical Implications of the JOBS Act Changes to Private Placements: Rule 506(c), Crowdfunding, and Reg A+

Two key features of the JOBS Act – general solicitation in Rule 506 offerings, and the increased thresholds at which an issuer will be required to register a class of securities under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the...more

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CFTC Issues Exemptive Relief Related to JOBS Act Amendments to Regulation D

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The Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (Division) of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on September 9, 2014 issued a letter granting exemptive relief from provisions in CFTC Regulations...more

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CFTC Provides Relief from Certain Agency Regulations to be Consistent with JOBS Act SEC Amendments

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On September 9, the CFTC issued an exemptive letter, which provides relief from certain provisions of Regulations 4.7(b) and 4.13(a)(3) restricting marketing to the public. The exemptive letter harmonizes these rules with...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

CFTC Aligns CPO Regulation With JOBS Act, Provides Other Guidance for CPOs

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO) recently issued several letters affecting commodity pool operators (CPOs): JOBS Act Harmonization: On September 9,...more

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CFTC Permits CPOs to Advertise

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On September 9, 2014, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an exemptive letter (No. 14-116) that permits a commodity pool operator (CPO) relying on an exemption under CFTC Regulation 4.7(b) or 4.13(a)(3) to...more

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CFTC Publishes Long-Awaited JOBS Act Relief

The staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) published a no-action letter on September 9, 2014 (available here) that permits certain commodity pool operators (CPOs) to conduct general solicitation in private...more

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CFTC Issues Exemptive Relief to Harmonize with JOBS Act Amendments to Regulation D and Rule 144A

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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) issued an Exemptive Letter on September 8, 2014 (“Exemptive Letter”) providing that an issuer relying on Rule 506(c) of Regulation D and resellers relying on Rule 144A,...more

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Crowdfunding: How the Web and Social Media are Changing the Face of Real Estate Investment

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Crowdfunding is a new financing model through which providers and consumers of equity or debt capital can come together and finance specific investments or investment entities. Although still in its infancy, crowdfunding has...more

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SEC Issues Interpretive Advice About Verification Safe Harbors Under Rule 506(c)

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The availability of the private placement exemption under SEC Rule 506 depends in large measure upon determinations that purchasers are “accredited investors” under the rules. Where there is no general solicitation, Rule...more

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Keith Higgins Speaks To JOBS Act Misperceptions: • The Staff Will Not Be Quick To Second Guess • “Venture Fairs” And “Demo Days”...

In a recent speech, Keith Higgins, Director, SEC Division of Corporation Finance, gave his views on certain misperceptions and other matters regarding general solicitation under the JOBS Act....more

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