Of course we are all happy that the stock market has been hitting new highs these past weeks. It has been a long road back from 2009 when the market had less than half its current value. The M&A market is awake, lots of large...
At the end of March, the Nasdaq Stock Market proposed requiring a permanent internal audit function at all Nasdaq-listed companies to ensure that financial controls are adequate. This is already a requirement of companies listed on the “big board” of NYSE Euronext. As we know,...
According to the DealFlow Report, the first quarter of 2013 has remained weak in financings for smaller public companies. IPOs, venture deals PIPEs and reverse mergers all declined. Follow-on public offerings, however, did go up. Liquidity is the word of the day as investors would...
Websites run by AngelList and FundersClub were told recently by the SEC that they can help companies raise money without being registered as broker-dealers with the SEC. The sites limit access to deal information to "accredited investors" (at least $200,000 income or $1 million net...