In a very big pre-Election Day surprise, the Securities and Exchange Commission today took a few significant steps to enhance access to capital for smaller companies, with the stated intention to "harmonize, simplify, and improve the multilayer and overly complex exempt offering framework." The new...

A little known and little used part of Regulation D under the Securities Act is about to get some new attention. In what appears to be a gift to the states after somewhat eviscerating their power with the Regulation A+ changes, the SEC, on October...