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Emerging Growth Companies (EGC) are companies with total yearly gross revenues of under $1 billion for the most recently completed fiscal year.  
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Capital Formation Related Legislation Advances

In late May 2025, the House Committee on Financial Services (the “Committee”) held a full committee markup, during which the Committee successfully reported 25 bills to the House of Representatives (the “House”). The bills...more

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Small Business Capital Formation Committee Submits Accredited Investor Definition Recommendations to SEC

On May 1, 2024, the SEC Small Business Capital Formation Committee submitted its accredited investor definition recommendations to the SEC.  Currently, an investor may qualify as an accredited investor by meeting certain...more

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Accredited Investor Definition Recommended Changes

As we previously posted, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee met last week to consider changes to the accredited investor definition, which has become a political hot...more

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Report on Small Business Forum

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently published its report on the Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation, which generates recommendations from participants that the SEC considers.  The...more

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Commissioners’ Comments at the 42nd Annual Small Business Forum

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Investor Advocate held the 42nd Annual Small Business Forum—this time convening panels over four days on various topics, including trends and challenges affecting early...more

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Annual Report of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation

The Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation published its annual report to the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the U.S. Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the US House of...more

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Report on 2019 SEC Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation Released

The Securities and Exchange Commission released the report from the August 2019 Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation. The Annual Forum provides an opportunity for market participants to meet and...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The JOBS Act 3.0: Regulatory Reforms Pass House of Representatives

On July 17, 2018, the House of Representatives passed the JOBS and Investor Confidence Act (JOBS Act 3.0), a package of reforms consisting of 32 pieces of legislation principally designed to spur entrepreneurship by...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act

Venture Exchange Regulation: Listing Standards, Market Microstructure, and Investor Protection

This summer, the House Financial Services Committee passed the Main Street Growth Act, which calls for legislative changes to promote the formation of venture exchanges. The idea that securities exchanges specially designed...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act

Agenda Announced for SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies Meeting

The SEC has announced the agenda for its May 18 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. The meeting will focus on the definition of “accredited investor”, where the recent SEC staff report will be...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act

The Section “4(a)(1-1/2)” Exemption

At last week’s SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies meeting, the Committee recommended that the SEC formalize the exemption in order to promote capital formation. Currently, there also is a pending bill,...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Meeting of the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies met on March 4 to discuss various topics related to facilitating the secondary market for trading securities of small and emerging...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

SEC Advised to “Do No Harm” to Accredited Investor Definition

At its meeting on March 4, the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies approved its rather limited recommendations to update the definition of “accredited investor” as it applies to natural persons as found...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act

Developments from Meeting of Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies

The Committee discussed: Regulation A+; secondary market trading for private securities; venture capital exchanges; and the accredited investor definition....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Toward a Transactional Exemption for Emerging Company Investments

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

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies to Discuss “Accredited Investor” Definition

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that its Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies (Committee) will hold a public meeting on February 17 to vote on recommendations to the SEC regarding the definition...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest - Volume X, Issue 5

In this issue: - SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies to Discuss “Accredited Investor” Definition - Glass Lewis Enhances its Pay-for-Performance and Equity Plan Models - SEC Issues New...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act

Advisory Committee will Consider Accredited Investor Definition

The SEC announced that at the December 17th meeting of the Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies, the group will focus on the definition of “accredited investor.” ...more

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