Daily Compliance News: June 17, 2025, The JBS Goes Public Edition
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What are the Different Ways Securities Can Be Offered and Sold? (Part 2)
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Raising Capital 101: A Securities Podcast - What are the Different Ways Securities Can Be Offered and Sold? (Part 1)
The LathamTECH Podcast — Can RSUs Unlock Employee Equity?
PLI's inSecurities Podcast - Opening the Securities Enforcement Answer Book
PLI's inSecurities Podcast: A View From the Inside
PLI's inSecurities Podcast: Whistling the Same Tune: Building an Effective Whistleblower Program
PLI's inSecurities Podcast - Commissioner Jaime Lizárraga’s Core Values
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Feds Danske to a New Tune
Crypto, Best Ex, Gatekeepers, Enforcement: The Biggest Stories From 2022
CYBER THURSDAY!
Crypto and the SEC - The Crypto Exchange Podcast
Coffee & Regs - Digital Assets: Trading & Compliance for Cryptocurrency
The Insider Trading Cartoon Series, Vol. V — Misappropriation Theory
CorpCast Episode 1: Sections, 204, 205 and In re Numoda
What is Bitcoin 2.0?
Insider Trading News - Ralph Siciliano discusses US v. Newman
Types of Crowdfunding
Keith Ross on HFT, Reg NMS and Dark Pools
Open for Business: SEF Competition Heating Up in the New Market Structure
In my experience, many securities lawyers are well versed in the federal securities laws, but have little experience with state securities laws. This is understandable because federal law in many cases preempts state...more
With an estimated 34 people moving to the Charleston area each day and with South Carolina claiming one of the fastest-growing populations in the nation last year , the post-COVID increase in the number of private placement...more
Florida recently implemented amendments to its Securities and Investor Protection Act (“Chapter 517”), bringing significant changes to the regulatory framework governing private placements, investment advisors, and exemptions...more
On December 20, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced charges against two private companies and a registered investment advisor for failure to file a Form D in connection with exempt offerings under...more
SEC is seeking public comments in its concept release in an effort to simplify, harmonize and improve the existing exempt offering framework. On June 18, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC” or the...more
Recently, I came across a very helpful table on the SEC's website. The table illustrates which offerings exempt from Section 5 of the Securities Act may be subject to state registration or qualification requirements...more
The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance staff released 35 new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) on December 8th. Among numerous interpretations focused on issues applicable to foreign private issuers and...more
On Monday, the House of Representatives passed the Creating Financial Prosperity for Businesses and Investors Act (H.R. 6427) (the “Act”) by a vote of 398 to 2. The Act is actually a compilation of six measures that were...more
The SEC has adopted final rules to modernize intrastate securities offerings under Rule 147, adopted new Rule 147A to broaden the availability of the existing safe harbor for intrastate securities offerings and amended Rule...more
On June 6, 2016, the OTC Markets Group Inc., the entity operating three major over-the-counter marketplaces (“OTC”), submitted a rulemaking petition to the SEC. The petition asked the SEC to amend Regulation A+ to allow...more
Newly adopted exemption to securities registration requirements may offer new capital raising opportunities for developing companies - A company that seeks to raise capital by offering or selling securities to potential...more
On February 16, 2015, the Texas State Securities Board voted to formally adopt their proposed Rule 139.27, which provides an exemption from dealer registration for intermediaries providing services solely in connection with...more
Yesterday’s post discussed a news report of an SEC inquiry into insider trading by CalPERS. Rather than being abashed by this news, CalPERS responded by congratulating itself on having implemented a personal trading policy....more
On February 5, 2013, the SEC released FAQs regarding Section 201 of the JOBS Act, which offers a new limited exemption from broker-dealer registration....more
On January 29, the SEC amended the expiration dates in its interim final rules that provide exemptions for security-based swaps that, prior to July 16, 2012, were security-based swap agreements and are defined as “securities”...more