Last Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a new Silicon Valley-based national securities exchange, the Long Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), with a unique twist - a focus on earlier stage companies and long term investing. The idea of "venture exchanges" has been around for...
Get the holiday theme? It hit me on the way to work. There seem to be two camps with views on how Regulation A+ is doing now that it has been over two years since the dismissal of two states' attempt to stop the new...
Many believe that cannabis stocks are experiencing a "bubble," meaning that market valuations are unjustified, unrealistic and based on investor hype as opposed to typical fundamental markers such as revenues, assets and profit. Some, like The Motley Fool, believe this is a bubble ready to...
The SEC Commissioners voted unanimously last month to expand the definition of “smaller reporting company.” This change has been requested as a key recommendation for a number of years at the annual SEC small business conference. Companies with SRC status have somewhat relaxed disclosure and...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced a plan on Monday to introduce federal legislation to remove industrial hemp as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Citing hemp as important to Kentucky’s farming history, he voiced his most positive support to...
The US House of Representatives yesterday passed the Regulation A+ Improvement Act of 2017 (although Congress.gov reports it as the "Regulation At Improvement Act"). This bill would increase the cap on amounts to be raised under Regulation A from $50 to $75 million. If the...
Today, Sebastian Abero, the head of the SEC's Office of Small Business Policy, had some very positive news for those interested in the new Regulation A+. He revealed that, since the Reg A+ rules were adopted by the SEC in June 2015, through September 2017,...
At today's Practising Law Institute's Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton commented, among other things, on initial coin offerings, or ICOs. As we know, this year alone billions of dollars have been raised in ICOs, where cryptocurrency in the form of a...
Thirty years ago today, October 19, 1987, the Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed with a whopping 22.6% decline in prices, the second biggest one day drop in the market (the biggest was in 1914). I was a young lawyer working at a large law firm...
Last week the SEC's Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies finished its work. The Committee is anticipated to be succeeded by the new Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee mandated by statute. A few highlights of their final recommendations to the Commission (all good...