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 +

House Financial Services Committee Solicits Public Feedback on Legislative Proposals to Facilitate Capital Formation

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 3/5/2025

Earlier this month, the US House of Representative’s Financial Services Committee (the “Committee”) held a hearing entitled “The Future of American Capital: Strengthening Public and Private Markets by Increasing Investor...more

Relief for Pre-Verified Accredited Investors May Encourage Rule 506(c) Offerings

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 2/16/2021

It’s pretty common for issuers in follow-on offerings to solicit investors from previous rounds first. Indeed, doing so is often mandatory when early investors have preemptive rights. ...more

Exempt Offering Amendments Deeper Dive, Part One: Higher Offering Caps

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 12/14/2020

Last month, The Securities and Exchange Commission passed sweeping reforms of the rules governing exempt offerings (the “2020 Reforms”) to make it easier for issuers to move from one exemption to another, to bring clarity and...more

SEC Proposes Amendments to MD&A

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 1/31/2020

The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday voted to propose amendments to the Regulation S-K requirements for Management’s Discussion and Analysis, or MD&A, and also issued agency guidance relating to MD&A. ...more

Testing the Waters for All – New Rule 163B Expands TTW to All Issuers: First Analysis

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 11/20/2019

In this Lexis Practice Advisor Practice Note, we discuss new Rule 163B adopted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). On September 26, 2019, the SEC extended the ability to test the waters to all issuers by...more

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