Social Media, Crowdfunding

Regulations Implementing California's Charitable Fundraising Platform Law Finalized: Significant Compliance Changes Lie Ahead

Venable LLP on 5/2/2024

California has approved final regulations (Final Regulations) to implement Assembly Bill 488 (AB 488), which was signed into law in October 2021. The law amended The Supervision of Trustees and Fundraisers for Charitable...more

Ninth Circuit Holds that Social Media Posts May Give Rise to “Seller” Liability Under Section 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act of...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/4/2023

In Pino v. Cardone Capital, LLC, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 35278 (9th Cir. Dec. 21, 2022), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (Lynn, J.) joined with the Eleventh Circuit in holding that a person may qualify...more

How Money Received Through “Crowdfunding” May Be Taxable

Foodman CPAs & Advisors on 4/26/2022

IRS may contact the recipients of crowdfunding campaign proceeds if not reported. IRS issues a soft alert to Taxpayers regarding their tax obligations for monies received under crowdfunding activities as well as the benefits...more

Social Media Compliance Guide For Issuers, Broker-Dealers, And Advisers

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 7/9/2018

[author: Trevor Starer] The use of social media raises many securities law and compliance challenges for issuers, broker-dealers, and investment advisers. This Compliance Guide summarizes briefly some key principles. ...more

The Guide to Social Media and the Securities Laws

Broker-Dealer Compliance + Regulation on 8/15/2017

The growing use of social media has created challenges for federal securities regulators, who must enforce antifraud rules that were written at a time when the prevailing technology was the newspaper. This Guide...more

[Event] Nonprofits in the Digital Age - October 18th, Seattle, WA

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 9/27/2016

Please join us for a complimentary seminar focused on the critical legal issues facing nonprofits as they increasingly engage supporters, raise funds, and create change online and through digital technology....more

Weekly Web Wrap-Up

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/18/2016

Friend a Bot on Facebook? Messenger Launches Business Chatbots - At Facebook’s annual developers conference F8 this week, Facebook confirmed that Messenger will allow brands and companies to build bots that interact...more

Technology Industry Newsletter - October 2015

Buchalter on 10/9/2015

We hope you enjoy this edition of our Tech Newsletter. As technology continues to drive business innovation and growth, new and existing companies positioned to take advantage of the tech trends for 2016 will be better...more

Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies Makes Three Written Recommendations to SEC

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act on 9/24/2015

It was a productive morning at the last meeting of its current term for the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. The Committee, which has been renewed for two more years, approved three recommendations to...more

The Guide to Social Media and the Securities Laws

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act on 6/17/2015

The growing use of social media has created challenges for federal securities regulators, who must enforce antifraud rules that were written at a time when the prevailing technology was the newspaper. This Guide...more

Social Media Start-Up Capital: Don't Try a Ponzi Scheme

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP on 8/6/2014

You’ve got the perfect idea for a social media site, but how do you attract a critical mass of members to launch it? Your credit cards are maxed out and your friends and family are tapped too. Can you attract members by...more

The Guide to Social Media and the Securities Laws

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media on 10/1/2013

REGULATION FD - Beginning in 1999 and continuing into 2000, media reports about selective disclosure of material nonpublic information by issuers raised concerns that select market professionals who were privy to this...more

The Guide to Social Media and the Securities Laws

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 9/9/2013

REGULATION FD - Beginning in 1999 and continuing into 2000, media reports about selective disclosure of material nonpublic information by issuers raised concerns that select market professionals who were privy to this...more

Is Crowdfunding Dead On Arrival? A Legal Perspective...

JD Supra Perspectives on 5/15/2013

"[Crowdfunding] lays the riskiest investments at the doorstep of those investors that can least afford the risk. And it won’t create jobs except for plaintiff’s lawyers…”...more

The Trouble With Crowdfunding

Troutman Pepper on 4/18/2013

It’s about one year since President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the JOBS Act), designed to help new companies raise capital and go public. For individual investors the most troublesome provisions of...more

SEC Considering New Regulations Governing Capital Formation for Smaller Companies, Crowdfunding, Social and Other New Media

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/22/2011

On April 6, 2011, Mary L. Schapiro, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") sent a letter to Darrell E. Issa, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, responding to a March 22, 2011...more

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