Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Securities Act of 1933, Internal Revenue Code (IRC)

The Possible Securities Act Implications Of Harvard's "Nyet" To Government Civil Rights Reform Demands

Allen Matkins on 4/16/2025

Last week, the United States General Services Administration, Department of Education, and Department of Health and Human Services sent a letter to Alan M. Garber, the President of Harvard University, and Penny Pritzker, Lead...more

SEC Moves to Modernize Framework for Securities Offerings and Sales to Workers

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 1/22/2021

The SEC takes a highly anticipated first step toward updating Rule 701 and Form S-8 - Amendments to Rule 701 would increase the cap on exempt offerings and ease disclosure burdens. Revisions to Form S-8 would permit...more

U.S. SEC Proposes Amendments For Compensatory Securities Offerings

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 12/17/2020

On November 24, 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments to Rule 701 and Form S-8. In a companion release, the SEC also proposed amendments to Rule 701 and Form S-8 to permit, on a temporary...more

New Effort to Exempt Crypto Currency from Certain SEC, Tax and Other Regulatory Burdens

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/17/2019

A new bill, the Token Taxonomy Act was introduced to congress to amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to exclude digital tokens from the definition of a security, to direct the Securities...more

A Taxonomy of the Proposed Token Taxonomy Act

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law on 3/1/2019

On December 20, 2018, a bipartisan pair of Congressmen, Warren Davidson (R-OH) and Darren Soto (D-FL), introduced bill H.R. 7356 to enact the Token Taxonomy Act (the “Act”). The Act proposes several amendments to federal...more

Legislation Relating to Capital Formation

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act on 5/22/2017

As the 115th United States Congress is currently in session, a number of bills designed to promote capital raising for companies have been introduced in both the House and the Senate. In the last two months, both the House...more