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In what may be indicative of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s renewed focus on small business capital formation, one of the topics that the staff (the “Staff”) of the Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance (the...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is once again considering a proposal that could exempt certain individuals—known as “finders”—from broker registration requirements when helping small businesses raise...more
On June 16, 2025, the Senate Finance Committee released its own version of proposed legislation following the House’s passage of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (H.R. 1). While the House bill did not introduce any changes to...more
On June 23, 2025, the House of Representatives (the “House”) passed seven bills relating to capital formation. As discussed in a previous post, these bills were reported to the House by the House Committee on Financial...more
In late May 2025, the House Committee on Financial Services (the “Committee”) held a full committee markup, during which the Committee successfully reported 25 bills to the House of Representatives (the “House”). The bills...more
On May 28, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) released several reports produced by its Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (“DERA”) detailing data and statistics regarding the use of the...more
The European Commission has published its Omnibus IV legislative proposal, together with a press release, for a Directive amending the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and the Critical Entities...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee (the “Committee”) will meet on May 6, 2025 to consider the market impact and challenges associated with Regulation A....more
The European Union ("EU") Listing Act, approved by the EU Council on October 8, 2024, introduces key changes to the EU Prospectus Regulation, offering greater flexibility to access and issue securities on EU markets for small...more
Early crowdfunding often broke securities laws due to unregistered offerings. In 2015, the SEC's Regulation Crowdfunding (Regulation CF) addressed this, stemming from the JOBS Act. It provides an exemption for certain...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee will meet on February 25, 2025 to discuss capital-raising challenges for emerging fund managers and smaller public companies...more
The SEC Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation has released its Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2024, shedding light on the current state of initial public offerings (IPOs) and the challenges faced by small...more
On May 1, 2024, the SEC Small Business Capital Formation Committee submitted its accredited investor definition recommendations to the SEC. Currently, an investor may qualify as an accredited investor by meeting certain...more
Not long ago, the SEC hosted the Annual Small Business Forum. The Forum provides an opportunity to consider a broad array of issues affecting private companies as well as smaller public companies seeking to raise capital and...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced an upcoming meeting of its Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee on May 6, 2024. The meeting will include a discussion of Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) and...more
As we previously posted, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee met last week to consider changes to the accredited investor definition, which has become a political hot...more
As we previously blogged, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation (OASB) recently published its Annual Report (the “Report”), which includes data on public...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently published its report on the Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation, which generates recommendations from participants that the SEC considers. The...more
Speaking at a conference at Columbia University as part of the Columbia Law and Business Schools’ Program in the Law and Economics of Capital Markets, Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Uyeda shared his views...more
Effective March 29, 2023, certain small business brokers will be exempted from registering with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC). The new law was signed into effect on December 29, 2022, as part of the...more
In a 3-2 vote held in November 2020, the SEC approved new rules and amendments to existing rules that are intended to harmonize, simplify and improve the private placement regime that start-ups and other issuers, small and...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission hosts an annual small business forum, which brings together (this year, virtually) a broad range of participants to consider regulatory and policy issues affecting small and medium-sized...more
On April 27, the SEC’s Division of Investment Management updated its COVID-19 FAQs to reflect the Staff’s position that small investment advisers must report the “nature, amounts and effects” of PPP loans if potentially...more
The Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation published its annual report to the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the U.S. Senate and the Committee on Financial Services of the US House of...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission released the report from the August 2019 Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation. The Annual Forum provides an opportunity for market participants to meet and...more