On December 4, 2015, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (the “FAST Act”) was signed into law by President Obama. Although the FAST Act is primarily a transportation bill, buried in this legislation is a new...more
When accepting money from outside investors, entrepreneurs are generally asked to give up some degree of control over their start-up, exchanging equity in their company for cash. In an effort to minimize the control they...more
Letter from the Editors -
Welcome to the second issue of Mintz Levin’s TechConnect — our bi-monthly newsletter on “all things technology” in the legal and business world, from our perspective, of course. This issue...more
12/29/2015
/ B Corporation ,
Broadcasting ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Crowdfunding ,
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) ,
FinTech ,
Global Intermediary Identification Number (GIIN) ,
IRIS ,
JOBS Act ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Socially Responsible Investments ,
Solar Energy
Three and a half years after the passage of the JOBS Act, the SEC on October 30, 2015 adopted final rules for Title III of that Act, more popularly known as equity crowdfunding and dubbed by the SEC as “Regulation...more
Earlier this month the SEC issued concurrently (i) the Citizen VC No Action Letter (in response to a request for guidance authored by Mintz Levin) relating to the use of 506(b) for a private placement online and (ii) a series...more
The SEC has recently provided clarity as to how an issuer of securities can conduct a private placement in a password protected web page under Rule 506(b), without it being deemed a “general solicitation” and thereby being...more
When the JOBS Act was passed in the spring of 2012, all the “buzz” was about the imminent advent of “Crowdfunding.” But as legal practitioners, business persons, and pundits looked closer at the details under the Crowdfunding...more
As a result of the recent “fiscal cliff” legislation, otherwise known as the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (2012 Tax Act), many individual investors are expecting future tax increases, either in the form of higher...more