A legal blog on private funds, startups, and venture capital.
A legal blog on private funds, startups, and venture capital.
This post is the second in a series examining the impact of the JOBS Act one year after its passage. The post focuses on the IPO On-Ramp. In my previous post, I discussed the disappointment experienced by many proponents of…
It’s been almost a year since Congress passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (or JOBS Act). At the time, the passage of this bill was greeted with significant enthusiasm from the start-up community. Among other things, it provided for…
Many entrepreneurs have been growing increasingly impatient with the SEC. Not only is the SEC about to be 6 months late in implementing the loosening of the general solicitation requirement of Regulation D, which was mandated by the JOBS Act,…
Yesterday, the SEC finally released its proposed rule to amend Rule 506 of Regulation D to eliminate the general solicitation prohibition for private placement offerings. As I’ve discussed in a previous post, the SEC’s continued delays in issuing this rule…
The JOBS Act contained two provisions that have the potential to help startups in their capital-raising efforts: (1) reform of Regulation D, which will permit more widespread solicitation of angel investors (this is also frequently referred to as the repeal…
