JONES DAY TALKS®: A Trip to the Dark Side – Venture Capital Down Rounds and Recaps
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - Why Raise Capital?
The Power of Genuine Networking for Entrepreneurs With OneSixOne Ventures with Pablo Casilimas and Justis Mendez
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 202: Life Sciences Startups and Industry Developments with Gil Price, Life Sciences Leader
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - The Aspects of Raising Capital from Start-Ups to More Established Companies
Embracing Change & Community: The Keys To Startup Success With Chris Heivly
Welcome to “Lowenstein Africa Presents: Venture Voices”
Legal Challenges Part 1 – Setting Up Your Startup for Success
A Conversation with Janade du Plessis of Launch Africa Ventures: Balancing Sustainable Development with ROI
The Force is Strong with this One – Success and Paying it Forward with Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor and Spiffy Scot Wingo
Hunting Outsized Returns with Jason Caplain of Bull City Venture Partners
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 182: Life Sciences Startups and Leadership with Scott Pancoast of Zylo Therapeutics
Through the Lens: From serial entrepreneur to neutral who gets deals done - Focus on Daniel Garrie
JONES DAY TALKS®: Corporate Venture Capital: Market Overview, Trends in Deal Terms, and Special Considerations
Business Better Podcast Episode: Investing in Consumer Brands – A Conversation with SBJ Capital
The Startup That's Rethinking Home Care: What Sets CareYaya Apart?
Inside the UK Legal Startup Scene, with Henry Humphreys
The Advantages of BVI Funds and How to Set One Up
Disrupting Systemic Economic Injustice in the Startup Ecosystem, with Resilient Ventures' Tom Droege and Keith Daniel
Oil & Gas M&A Deal Activity & Outlook--Part 1
Identifying potential investors is one of the most difficult challenges facing early-stage companies. The range of amounts sought at this stage is typically greater than what could be provided by the founders and friends and...more
The United States represents a large source of potential capitalthat non-U.S. fund managers often find impossible to ignore. To assist non-U.S. fund managers, we have prepared a checklist that sets out key considerations for...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission just proposed new rules to protect investors in private investment funds. The proposed rules would require private fund advisers to disclose certain information and avoid certain...more
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
You just raised $1 million in your crowdfunding offering under Title III/Regulation CF. That’s the good news. The bad news? You now have over a thousand shareholders on your cap table, making it unwieldy, an administrative...more
On August 26, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced several changes to the “accredited investor” definition, adding new categories of the eligible individual and corporate candidates for private...more
On August 26, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) amended the definition of “accredited investor,” one of the principal tests for determining eligibility for participation in private placements of securities....more
On August 26, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments expanding the definition of “accredited investor” to allow additional categories of investors to invest in unregistered private offerings. The...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing to expand the definition of “accredited investor” to include additional entities that could bear the economic risks of investment and certain financially sophisticated...more
Real estate developers should seriously consider equity crowdfunding to fund development projects for two major reasons, one of which has little or nothing to do with money. ...more
This Houston Business Journal article quotes Steptoe & Johnson Attorney Daniel Nossa. Bitcoin speculation and initial coin offerings got plenty of attention in the past year. But those high-profile issues aren’t the...more
On July 17, 2018, the United States House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan package of reforms to help facilitate capital formation and spur entrepreneurship. The JOBS and Investor’s Confidence Act (JOBS...more
t’s not often that the House of Representatives votes nearly unanimously on anything noteworthy these days, but that’s exactly what the House did on July 17 in voting 406-4 for the “JOBS and Investor Confidence Act of...more
When you need cash to fuel your startup, it’s tempting to “think local.” The people with the strongest ties to you—relatives, friends, college roommates, running buddies, and co-workers—are the ones who believe in you. You’d...more
Some interesting links we found across the web this week: The SEC could change the requirements for investing in startups, and that’s not good - With its new equity crowdfunding rules soon to take effect, the...more
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
This Glossary is designed to provide law students taking Securities Regulation with a tool that will assist them in learning the basic language of securities law and achieve a working knowledge of the fundamental principles...more
The SEC granted no-action relief to Citizen VC, Inc. which appears to state, although subject to facts and circumstances, a pre-existing relation can be formed with a person that first contacts a seller of securities over the...more
As we reported in January 2015, 2014 was a banner year for venture capital on all fronts, from fundraising, to investment and exits – save, however, for the small drop in the number of deals versus the largest aggregate...more
In This Issue: - The Importance of Accredited Investors for Small Business Capital Formation - “All Appropriate Inquiries”: Update on the Environmental Due Diligence Standard - A Hunt for Justice Erodes...more
The Committee discussed: Regulation A+; secondary market trading for private securities; venture capital exchanges; and the accredited investor definition....more
In “Bringing the Individual Accredited Investor Definition into the 21st Century,” which was posted on December 18th of last year, it was suggested that there might be certain common venture capital transactional structures...more