She has nearly 6 million fans on Instagram. She's been covered everywhere from TMZ to Yahoo to People.com and the London Mirror. Famous for her very toned figure and recently her equally toned Mom, at the tender age of 21, New Yorker Jen Selter has...
Many seem a little confused by the flurry of regulatory activity in Congress and the SEC the last few years when it comes to small business and capital formation. Regulation D? Regulation A+? Kickstarter? Crowdfunding? Which is which? Watch this week's episode of The Entrepreneur's Advocate...
Our law firm is a proud sponsor of next week's Growth Capital Expo at Caesar's Palace in the City of Lost Wages. We somewhat prophetically months ago planned for me to moderate a panel discussion on Regulation A+, clearly divining that the final rules would...
Last week the SEC voted unanimously to adopt final rules implementing changes to Regulation A which were mandated by the Jumpstart our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012. How will these final changes affect emerging growth companies? Find out in today's episode of The Entrepreneur's...
It's not often that Passover and Easter are so close to each other and both over the same weekend. Putting aside the various religious implications, both are positive and happy celebrations and portend the renewal of Spring. For my friends in, say LA, Miami, etc.,...
I'm attending a fascinating conference today sponsored by my alma mater, the Wharton School, and chaired by a good friend, on business opportunities in Cuba. This follows President Obama's December 2014 announcement to begin normalizing relations with Cuba, improve travel and commerce opportunities and remove...
Today was a significant day for the world of IPOs, small business and the smallcap markets. The SEC voted unanimously to adopt final rules implementing changes to Regulation A which were mandated by the Jumpstart our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012. It took awhile...
It has happened at last. Almost three years after passage of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012, the SEC is set to vote to finalize rules on so-called Regulation A+ expansion this Wednesday, March 25. As we have written often here, the...
Like the rise and fall of some Hollywood stars, the reverse merger has faced both criticism and popularity over the decades. Through the 2000s many of us successfully showed the market how these combinations into non-operating public vehicles (including special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs),...
It started with the National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996 (lovingly known as "NSMIA" pronounced "nissmeeya"). That law said federal SEC oversight of public offerings on the major national exchanges is sufficient and the states do not also need to review, weigh in, and...