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Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 204: Accelerating Life Sciences Startups with James Chappell of SCbio
Welcome to “Lowenstein Africa Presents: Venture Voices”
A Conversation with Janade du Plessis of Launch Africa Ventures: Balancing Sustainable Development with ROI
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 180: SCBIO and the Life Sciences Industry in South Carolina with James Chappell, SCBIO CEO
Podcast Episode 188: The Power of a Sector Based Approach: Specificity Drives Strategy
A Conversation With Consortium - COVID-19 Client Stories
Life Sciences Quarterly: A View From Washington: What to Expect From the SEC
Ryan Hong Discusses Important Contracts for Startups
Venture Capital Trends: East Meets West – Lewis Geffen, Co-chair, Venture Capital Practice
Financing Challenges for Small Cap Companies
Jaffe Sees 'A Lot' of IPOs in 2013 'Pipeline'
JOBS Act Lessens Disclosure Requirements
Introduced under Title III of the JOBS Act, Regulation Crowdfunding (“Regulation CF”) was promulgated to allow startups and emerging companies to raise capital from a wider pool of investors through equity crowdfunding...more
Not long ago, the SEC hosted the Annual Small Business Forum. The Forum provides an opportunity to consider a broad array of issues affecting private companies as well as smaller public companies seeking to raise capital and...more
With a stated goal of enhancing transparency of business ownership, the federal Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) mandates various types of businesses – such as corporations, limited liability companies, and limited...more
Effective September 20, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) increased the annual gross revenue threshold to qualify for emerging growth company (EGC) status from $1.07 billion to $1.235 billion. ...more
The United States is the largest financial services market in the world. For an international business, expanding operations to the U.S. can facilitate capital-raising efforts, provide access to one of the world’s deepest...more
In her first speech as the SEC’s Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation, Martha Miller provided an overview of the Office’s mission, as well as the Office’s priorities. Miller noted the importance of the small...more
Some interesting links we found across the web this week: The SEC is Looking to Make it Easier for Any Company to Test the IPO Waters - A recent proposal from the SEC may make it easier for smaller private companies to...more
On July 17, 2018, the United States House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan package of reforms to help facilitate capital formation and spur entrepreneurship. The JOBS and Investor’s Confidence Act (JOBS...more
Questions surrounding the use of virtual currencies and other digital tokens (“tokens”) as compensation came to the forefront last month following formal guidance from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on...more
On July 25, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Enforcement issued an investigative report on a hot new fundraising phenomenon being used by emerging companies, venture capital funds, and hedge...more
The Howey test lives on—now in a lesson in what not to do when it comes to token offerings. Token offerings, also known as “initial token offerings,” “token launches,” “token sales,” “initial coin offerings,” or “ICOs,”...more
Our 2016 IPO Report offers a detailed analysis of, and outlook for, the IPO market, plus useful IPO market metrics. We look at rates of adoption of JOBS Act relief by emerging growth companies, and recent FAST Act amendments...more
It was a productive morning at the last meeting of its current term for the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies. The Committee, which has been renewed for two more years, approved three recommendations to...more
We have seen various initiatives intended to promote capital formation for smaller reporting companies and emerging growth companies. Among these initiatives, the development of venture exchanges in the United States appears...more
This Glossary is designed to provide law students taking Securities Regulation with a tool that will assist them in learning the basic language of securities law and achieve a working knowledge of the fundamental principles...more
On August 6, the Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a no-action letter to Citizen VC, Inc. (“Citizen VC”), the manager of a venture capital investment platform...more
The SEC granted no-action relief to Citizen VC, Inc. which appears to state, although subject to facts and circumstances, a pre-existing relation can be formed with a person that first contacts a seller of securities over the...more
In “Bringing the Individual Accredited Investor Definition into the 21st Century,” which was posted on December 18th of last year, it was suggested that there might be certain common venture capital transactional structures...more