SEC Adopts New Rules For Cross-Border Transactions
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
The Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") recently adopted tender offer and registration exemptive r.
IPO Participation Rights Could Be Wrong
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
To take advantage of escalating first day trading prices for many technology companies, venture capitalists often .
SEC Adopts Amendments to Regulation S
Charles C. Comey and Lloyd Harmetz of Morrison & Foerster LLP
This article discusses recently passed amendments to Regulation S to the Securities Act of 1933.
Securities Laws and Raising Capital
George F. Eaton of Rudman & Winchell
Principal stockholders of closely held corporations need to understand basic securities law concepts when.
Enhanced Access to Private Equity
Martin P.J. Kratz and Scott M. Reeves of Lexpert
In recent times the marketplace has provided a very difficult environment for companies in any industry to raise private equity capital, and this has been the case particularly for technology companies. A further difficulty has been the restrictive regulatory environment that constrained issuers from raising public funds without the use of a prospectus-a cumbersome, costly and time-consuming document.
Releasing Research Reports -- What Can You Do?
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
We frequently are asked by our investment banking clients whether their colleagues in the research department can issue a research report on a company about to launch a financing.
Small Business and the Securities and Exchange Commission
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Guide from the Securities and Exchange Commission for small businesses which explains how to raise capital and comply with the federal securities laws.
Private Placement Offerings
Momkus McCluskey, LLC
A private placement offering is the sale of stock of a company to private investors without the use of public market exchanges. Although the end result of a private placement offering is the same as a public sale of stock through the exchange markets (i.e. the sale of stock to the private investor), unlike a public offering, a private placement offering does not involve securities that are registered with the Securities & Exchange Commission ("SEC").
Will ABS/MBS Launch From the Aircraft Carrier?
Jordan M. Schwartz of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Background In November 1998, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a set of changes to the regulatio.
Physician Networks and IPAs -- Are you Selling Securities?
Dawn Lankford Bowling of Broad and Cassel
If you are considering forming a network or independent practice association ("IPA") and issuing stock or limited p.
The SEC's Inglorious Role in Limiting Small Business's Access to Capital
Rutheford B. Campbell of The Federalist Society
One of the most curious and misdirected regulatory approaches of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is the Commission's relentless refusal to permit small corporations to solicit broadly for external capital.
Amendments to Form S-8, Rule 701 and Rule 504
Coudert Brothers LLP
The Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") has recently adopted or proposed several rule changes .
Securities Alert--July 1999
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
The Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") recently adopted amendments to Rule 504 of Regulation D ("Rule 504"). Rule 504 provides an exemption from registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act") for offerings of non-reporting issuers to raise "seed capital" in an aggregate amount of no more than $1 million in a 12-month period.