We wanted everyone to see the recent alert published by Kimberly L. Kwan and Joshua Ashby, concerning the SEC and Crowdfunding Portals. SEC Expects Crowdfunding Portals to be ‘Gatekeepers,’ Not
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CROWD FUNDING PLATFORMS AVOID BD REGISTRATION
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Trading and Markets assured two entities that, if they sought accredited investors for start-up companies they would not risk enforcement action by failing…
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SEC Pushes Reg D/Rule 144A Changes Back a Week
In an unshocking move, the SEC decided to delay its Open Meeting on the changes to Rule 506 of Regulation D and Rule 144A required under the JOBS Act (which…
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Cutting Through the Crowdfunding Hype
Like many others, my interest in the JOBS Act really started with crowdfunding. This is probably because securities law is an imposing tangle of archaic acts, byzantine regulations and repetitive…
Crowdfunding – Waiting For Senate Action
George Washington famously (and perhaps apocryphally) compared the Senate to a cooling saucer, where the heated legislation from the more democratically accountable House could be considered by calmer…