News & Analysis as of August 15, 2025

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The Jump-Start Our Business Start-Ups Act is a United States federal law enacted in 2012 to increase start-up companies' access to capital by easing certain restrictions on seeking and soliciting private... more +

SEC Continues Renewal Project for Registered Capital Raises - Expanding Use of Draft Filings May Counter Abandonment of Public...

Carlton Fields on 5/7/2025

More than a decade has passed since the enactment of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which encouraged small-company capital formation through a reduction in costly regulatory burdens on SEC registrants. In...more

Less Red Tape, More Capital? SEC Clarifies 506(c) Verification Rules

DarrowEverett LLP on 3/17/2025

On March 12, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a significant no-action letter clarifying the use of high minimum investment amounts as a method for verifying accredited investor status under Rule...more

SEC Broadens Guidance on Accredited Investor Verification

Troutman Pepper Locke on 3/13/2025

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a no-action letter providing new interpretive guidance on the verification of accredited investor status in offerings conducted under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D, which...more

The Latham FPI Guide: Accessing the US Capital Markets From Outside the United States - 2024 Edition

Latham & Watkins LLP on 9/11/2024

Fabry-Pérot Interferometer, SA is a highly successful non-US company known to the world as FPI. FPI is considering doing a debt or equity offering in the United States. What are the key legal issues it, and its underwriters...more

EGC IPOs and IPO Registration Statement Trends in 2019

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 11/18/2019

IPOs in 2019 have raised more capital across a smaller number of deals, as we have previously blogged. EY’s recent Trends in US IPO Registration Statements report notes that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)...more

On the Rise Again? A Look at Trends in the U.S. IPO Market

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 9/6/2018

Since the financial crisis, the IPO market has been somewhat volatile, but in the last few quarters, the market has shown growth. ...more

The JOBS Act at Five: Congressional Hearing Highlights Need for Further Reform

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 3/27/2017

On March 22, the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities, and Investment of the Financial Services Committee conducted a hearing entitled “The JOBS Act at Five: Examining Its Impact and Ensuring the Competitiveness of the...more

2015 Year-End IPO Market Review

WilmerHale on 2/4/2016

The 2015 IPO market produced 152 IPOs, a disappointing tally that lagged well behind the 244 IPOs in 2014 despite continued strength in the life sciences sector. Setting aside the anomalous years of 2008 and 2009, however,...more

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