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The 15-Minute Founder’s Guide: Pay-to-Play Transactions

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If your startup continues to follow the proverbial “hockey stick” of uninterrupted, exponential growth that you presented in your seed round pitch deck, you might always have easy access to capital and never encounter a...more

Sullivan & Worcester

SEC Changes Rules to Improve Deal Flow for Private Companies and Investors

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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

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SEC Tries (and Fails) to Expand the Private Markets

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On August 26, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced several changes to the “accredited investor” definition, adding new categories of the eligible individual and corporate candidates for private...more

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Demo Days May Soon Be In the Clear

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The Current Problem with Demo Days - Under U.S. federal securities law, any offer and sale of securities must either be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or be conducted in compliance with an...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Are Your Private Placement Documents Up To Date?

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Over the last few years, many Canadian junior resource companies and startup companies have cut back on their legal spend, not necessarily undertaking a legal review of each new private placement of securities, or limiting...more

Gray Reed

Crowdfunding or Private Placement Memorandum?

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Spurred by the frenzy of mid-century modern furniture of the 1950s and 1960s returning in popularity, a growing number of collectors are investing in and holding vintage furniture. Capitalizing on that craze, N. Stile Sune’s...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

The Equity Crowdfunding Rules: What You Need to Know

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The SEC’s equity crowdfunding rules finally go into effect this month almost four years after Congress passed the JOBS Act, requiring the relaxing of certain rules on raising funds. So what does equity crowdfunding actually...more

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

To PPM or not to PPM that is the Question for many Start-Ups

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Many start-up companies know they want to raise angel capital, but do not know how to proceed. They really want to know: “do I need a 50 page Private Placement Memorandum to raise money?” The answer is: “It depends, but...more

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House Committee on Financial Services Reports Favorably on the HALOS Act

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United States Representative Steve Chabot of Ohio first introduced the Helping Angels Lead Our Startups Act (the “HALOS Act”) on February 9, 2016. Less than a month later, on March 2, 2016 the House Committee on Financial...more

Carlton Fields

SEC Charges EB-5 Brokers For Not Registering

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Multiple firms involved in the solicitation of investment capital for the Immigrant Investor Program (also known as "EB-5") have recently been charged by the SEC with acting as unregistered brokers. Neither In re Ireeco, LLC,...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - JOBS Act

A-Okay, Regulation A+

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This is a very brief, initial summary. We will be reporting on the final rule in an upcoming alert. The SEC’s proposed rules already had provided a very practical format for private issuers seeking to raise capital. The...more

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No Billboards, Please

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Companies intending to seek funding under the JOBS Act’s crowdfunding provision gained a seeming advantage in September when the SEC removed its ban on the general solicitation or advertising of certain types of private...more

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FINRA Updates Private Placement Form

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In its continuing quest to improve member firm due diligence in private placements, thereby enhancing investor protections (See our posts on July 7, July 24 and August 6, 2013), on August 19, 2013, FINRA issued Regulatory...more

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