A few weeks ago the President renewed discussion of the possibility of eliminating quarterly reporting by US public companies and moving back to semi-annual reports. In a tweet on August 17, he said, “In speaking with some of the world’s top business leaders I asked what...
The SEC Commissioners voted unanimously last month to expand the definition of “smaller reporting company.” This change has been requested as a key recommendation for a number of years at the annual SEC small business conference. Companies with SRC status have somewhat relaxed disclosure and...
The President today signed the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act. Most of the bill is centered around easing some Dodd-Frank restrictions as they apply to smaller banks. But buried in Section 508, called "Improving Access to Capital," Congress adopted a major change...
Last November, the SEC held its annual conference focused on small business in Austin, TX. Most of the conference consists of participants developing recommendations to the SEC. Those recommendations are then ranked by the participants and published, which they have recently done. The recommendations from...
Tomorrow night at a panel here at Duane Morris, we will hit official pre-launch on my latest book, Regulation A+ and Other Alternatives to a Traditional IPO (John Wiley & Sons). Here's info from Amazon about this guide to the new streamlined IPO process through...
Today, Sebastian Abero, the head of the SEC's Office of Small Business Policy, had some very positive news for those interested in the new Regulation A+. He revealed that, since the Reg A+ rules were adopted by the SEC in June 2015, through September 2017,...
At today's Practising Law Institute's Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton commented, among other things, on initial coin offerings, or ICOs. As we know, this year alone billions of dollars have been raised in ICOs, where cryptocurrency in the form of a...
A week ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission, as required by the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, released a proposal to simplify and modernize Regulation S-K, which governs most public company disclosure. None of the proposals individually is that huge, but as a group...
Last week the SEC's Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies finished its work. The Committee is anticipated to be succeeded by the new Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee mandated by statute. A few highlights of their final recommendations to the Commission (all good...
The Regulation A+ rules adopted by the SEC in 2015 included scaled reporting obligations to assist in reducing issuers' offering costs as against a traditional IPO. However, if a company is seeking to become a full Securities Exchange Act reporting company, which is required if...