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Corp Fin Continues to Make Reg A Offerings Easier to Conduct

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Last month, Corp Fin’s Office of Small Business Policy issued no-action relief to a company from the requirement to file an annual report on Form 1-K under Regulation A – despite the fact that the company didn’t qualify for...more

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Corp Fin Revises Two (And Withdraws One) Legal Proceeding Disclosure CDIs

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A few weeks ago, Corp Fin revised two – and withdrew one – of the Legal Proceedings CDIs under Item 103 of Regulation S-K. These CDI changes are catching up to the reorg of Item 103 that the SEC made five years ago when the...more

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Where Do Corp Fin Directors Hail From?

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As we await word as to who the next Corp Fin Director is, I thought it might be useful to investigate where these folks typically hail from. Below is an analysis of this list of Corp Fin Directors that I created long ago on...more

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SEC’s Corp Fin Says Most Stablecoins Are Not Exchanged in Securities Transactions

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On April 4, the SEC released a Statement on Stablecoins. In the statement, the Division of Corporation Finance provides its view that offers and sales of a certain subset of crypto assets commonly known as “stablecoins”...more

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Securities Act and FPI Exchange Act forms CDIs update

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Corp Fin continues its project of updating CDIs. This new tranche relates to effectiveness of Form S-3 relative to timing of filing of Forms 10-K and proxy statements, allowing non-automatically effective Forms S-3 to be...more

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Corp Fin Issues “Verification of Accredited Investor Status” Guidance

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Last week, Corp Fin issued guidance about how to verify accredited investors in two different forms. It issued two CDIs on the topic, as well as a no-action letter that goes into more detail. [As noted in this blog by...more

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New CDIs related to M&A

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Corp Fin has just posted some new CDIs related to M&A transactions, more specifically, a revised CDI related to Form S-4 and lock-up agreements and a new group of CDIs related primarily to material changes in tender offers....more

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Corp Fin Issues New Guidance Further Accommodating Nonpublic Draft Registration Statements

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A few days ago, Corp Fin issued this guidance expanding the accommodations available for nonpublic review of draft registration statements to all issuers, building on the 2017 expansion of nonpublic reviews initiated by the...more

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A Response to Last Week’s Corp Fin Interps: BlackRock Stops All Scheduled Engagement!

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As noted in the Cooley Alert from Brad Goldberg, Beth Sasfai, Reid Hooper and Michael Mencher that I blogged about yesterday, Corp Fin issued guidance last week that some thought could alter the nature of shareholder...more

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Some highlights of the 2023 PLI Securities Regulation Institute

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This year’s PLI Securities Regulation Institute was a source for a lot of useful information and interesting perspectives. Panelists discussed a variety of topics, including climate disclosure (although no one shared any...more

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