The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) directed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to eliminate the prohibition against general solicitation or general advertising in any ...

Nancy Wojtas, the head of the public companies group at Cooley LLP, alerted me to the fact that the SEC staff yesterday issued 14 new Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) relating to Rule ...

This article is part one, of a two part discussion, on Identifying Bad Actors for private placements. In 2010, as part of the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, Congress adopted the ...

The same kind of change that swept through the mutual fund industry, making investing in a fund a quick and easy process, and bringing billions more dollars into the industry, is now impacting the ...

According to the Securities Act of 1933, any company that sells securities must either register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or file for an exemption. The JOBS Act 2012 provides a ...

Rule 506 requires no disclosures for an unregistered offering with the exception of required compliance with anti-fraud rules. On the other hand, crowdfunding will come with very specific reporting ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced new rules allowing general solicitation of investors in private offerings. The intent is to provide businesses, including health care ...

A Securities and Exchange Commission exemption makes it easy for startups like Scuderi Group to raise money without government scrutiny, but revisions are constantly made to the law and companies must ...

We collaborate with the world's leading lawyers to deliver news tailored for you. Sign Up for any (or all) of our 25+ Newsletters. Some states have laws and ethical rules regarding solicitation and ...

When President Obama signed the JOBS Act almost a year ago it introduced a new era of startup financing. But until the SEC makes the required rules, the fundraising bonanza known as crowdfunding that ...