Final Report Issued by SEC-Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation -

In March 2017, the Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation of the Securities and Exchange Commission published its final report from the 2016 forum held on November 17, 2016. The forum is held annually “to provide a platform to highlight perceived unnecessary impediments to small business capital formation.” Each year the SEC’s Office of Small Business Policy (a part of the Division of Corporation Finance) invites federal government agencies, the North American Securities Administrators Association (consisting of state securities, or Blue Sky, regulators), and small business and professional organizations to participate in the forum, and each forum puts forth a list of recommendations to improve the capital formation process for small businesses. The 2016 forum’s final report included 15 recommendations, organized based on the forum participants’ perception of importance and urgency, which included the following as the top two...