by Staff of the Firm | Jan 14, 2016 | JOBS Act, Raising Capital, Securities Laws, Uncategorized
More on the Rules for an Offering in a Single State Rule 147 Intrastate Exemption: Proposed Amendments. The proposed amendments would: (1) eliminate the current restriction on offers, while continuing to require that sales be made only to residents of the issuer’s...
by Staff of the Firm | Jan 7, 2016 | JOBS Act, Raising Capital, Securities Laws, Uncategorized
October was a busy month for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). On October 30, 2015, the day the agency finally voted to adopt the crowdfunding final rules, it also issued proposed rules to amend: (1) Rule 147, which currently provides a safe harbor for...
by Staff of the Firm | Nov 12, 2015 | JOBS Act, Private Placements, Raising Capital, Securities Laws, Uncategorized
Intrastate Exemption. We briefly touched on the concept of intrastate exemption in our previous blog series on crowdfunding (available here). As the name suggests, intrastate offerings are transactions that do not involve interstate commerce (hence the exemption, as...
by Staff of the Firm | Nov 5, 2015 | JOBS Act, Private Placements, Raising Capital, Securities Laws, Uncategorized
General Solicitation. As we discussed in our previous blog series on exempt offerings (available here), absence of general solicitation is a condition to be met in most exempt offerings, with limited exceptions, such as offering under Rule 506(c). This is important...
by Staff of the Firm | Oct 31, 2015 | JOBS Act, Private Placements, Raising Capital, Securities Laws, Uncategorized
Verification of Accredited Investor Status. The next set of questions are related to the requirement under Rule 506(c) that an issuer take reasonable steps to verify, and form a reasonable belief regarding, the accredited investor status of a purchaser at the time of...
