On Wednesday, December 18, 2019, the SEC adopted new rules 15Fi-3, 15Fi-4, and 15Fi-5, which they describe as risk mitigation techniques for uncleared security-based swaps. These rules “establish requirements for registered security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap… Read More
Form S-1 provides flexibility in going public transactions. It allows the issuer to register shares during the going public process on behalf of the issuer or shareholders.
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Janardhan Nellore, a 42 year old IT administrator, has been charged with using confidential earnings information, along with his friends, to trade on a Silicon Valley cloud-computing company that he was working for. The scheme netted him and… Read More
Rule 506(c) of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, allows a company to use general solicitation and advertising to raise an unlimited amount of money from accredited investors. Companies can raise the funds themselves… Read More
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Elizabeth Warren is currently running for President as a candidate for the Democratic Party. She is also currently a United States Senator from Massachusetts. She was formerly a Professor at Harvard Law School. She was recently a front-runner… Read More
Swedish multinational corporation Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, better known as simply “Ericsson”, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) “with engaging in a large-scale bribery scheme involving the use of sham consultants to secretly funnel money to… Read More
Nanotech Engineering Inc., a solar panel company based in California, has allegedly defrauded over 100 investors, and the SEC has obtained a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against the company and its three executives, Chief Financial Officer… Read More
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Tim Leissner, former head of Asian Investment with Goldman Sachs, has been permanently banned from the securities industry by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) due to a scandal involving bribery and the Malaysian state fund 1MDB. According… Read More
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Going public transactions can be structured a variety of ways. Many going public transactions involve the filing of a secondary registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) registering shares held by existing stockholders so that the issuer can… Read More
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Christopher Collins, the first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump for President, pleaded guilty to insider trading along with his son, on December 9, 2019. He had to change his plea, after initially claiming he was completely… Read More
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On December 11, 2019, Palm Beach Atlantic Financial Group, LLC and its managing member and sole owner, William A. Smith, were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) “with engaging in the fraudulent offer and sale of… Read More
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Eran Eyal was charged by the SEC this week for selling unregistered securities and improperly using the funds that he raised. Through his Initial Coin Offering (ICO), Eyal and his company UnitedData, using the name Shopin Tokens, raised… Read More
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In our previous blog post, we wrote about the FDA’s recent releases detailing how they were unwilling to label CBD as a safe dietary supplement. In response to the FDA’s decision, two class action lawsuits have been filed… Read More
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The FDA released a statement this week detailing how it has warned fifteen different companies for illegally selling products containing cannibidiol (CBD), and the agency addressed safety concerns it has regarding this newly popular ingredient. The violations include… Read More
Though FINRA’s principal mandate is to regulate broker-dealers, historically it has always exercised some oversight of the over-the-counter markets including all tiers of the OTC Markets. Part of that oversight involves processing corporate action requests from issuers of… Read More
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On November 25, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission amended a complaint to charge four former executives of Outcome Health, a private healthcare advertising company, with fraud in raising nearly half a billion dollars by falsely portraying… Read More
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A new type of IPO has gained prevalence recently, as big tech companies such as Slack and Spotify have decided to take their companies public via a Direct Listing Process (DLP), also known as a Direct Placement, or… Read More
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Knightsbridge Private Partners, a New York firm, has been accused of making over $2 million from October 2018 to January 2019 by selling fake shares of stock in pre-IPO companies. They offered “pre-IPO” shares of Uber, Airbnb, and… Read More
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The Supreme Court this week agreed to hear the case of Liu vs. Securities and Exchange Commission. The issue at hand is “Whether the Securities and Exchange Commission may seek and obtain disgorgement from a court as “equitable relief”… Read More
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Seeking to improve the secondary market structure for “thinly traded securities”, the SEC has outsourced the creative process to anyone involved in this market who may have some good ideas. The SEC’s press release “invites exchanges and other… Read More
Rule 506 and Regulation A provide smaller companies with a flexible alternative to raising capital and going public in connection with direct public offering (DPO) and/or traditional initial public offering (IPO).
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On December 20, 2018, the 2018 Farm Bill was signed into law by the federal government. The 2018 Farm Bill “requires USDA to promulgate regulations and guidelines to establish and administer a program for the production of hemp… Read More
An increasing number of small companies seeking public company status are using Tier 2 of Regulation A in their going public transaction. This process is sometimes referred to as a Regulation A direct listing. Regulation A provides many… Read More
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Currently, although many states have legalized marijuana, it is still illegal to sell the drug under federal law. Because of this, under tax code Section 280E, cannabis companies are not allowed to make any deductions in their filings… Read More
Issuers utilizing Regulation A+ are permitted to “test the waters” with potential purchaser and use solicitation materials both before and after the offering statement is filed, subject to compliance with SEC rules on filing and disclaimers. Using Regulation… Read More
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On October 24, 2019, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced a settled enforcement action involving BNP Paribas Securities Corp. and BNP Paribas Prime Brokerage, Inc. A lengthy FINRA investigation found that although the firms did a brisk… Read More
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Corporate hijackings, also known as corporate identity theft, of public shell companies has been around for more than a decade. Corporate hijackings often involve fraudulent state custodianship and/or receivership proceedings disguised to appear legitimate.
The Regulation A + offering integration rules prevent companies from improperly avoiding the SEC’s registration statement requirements by dividing a single securities offering into multiple securities offerings to take advantage of exemptions that would not be available for the combined offerings. Regulation… Read More
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Benefits of Regulation A+ Amendments On December 19, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted amendments to Regulation A informally referred to as Regulation A+. The amendment allows companies that are subject to SEC reporting requirements under… Read More
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Beginning in January 2018, Telegram Group Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary TON issuer began raising capital to finance their business. This included development of their own blockchain and mobile messaging application. According to the SEC, “Defendants sold approximately… Read More
Non-Traditional IPO: Direct Listing Process (DLP)
A new type of IPO has gained prevalence recently, as big tech companies such as Slack and Spotify have decided to take their companies public via a Direct Listing Process (DLP), also known as a Direct Placement, or… Read More
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