Many companies voluntarily impose a “blackout period” beginning around the time a quarter ends and continuing through the quarter’s earnings announcement or subsequent 10-Q or 10-K ...
On April 5, 2012, the President signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”), the most significant Congressional relaxation in memory of restrictions surro...
Today President Obama signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”). The JOBS Act includes provisions that ease the IPO process and subsequent public report...
By a vote of 380 to 41, the House of Representatives today passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (“JOBS”) Act, without further amendment. The JOBS Act will now be sent to Preside...
On March 22, 2012, the Senate passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”), in substantially the same form passed by the House of Representatives on March 8, 2012, ...
Today, the U.S. Senate passed the House version of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (“JOBS”) Act with amendments only to place further limitations on the “crowdfunding” exempti...
A number of recent studies have noted a substantial decrease in IPOs by smaller companies and a perceived lack of hospitality to smaller companies in the public markets. Commentators have...
While the U.S. IPO market has slowed down in recent months, Davis Polk’s pipeline of deals in progress is strong, leading us to believe that there will be an uptick in IPO transactions ...
On June 22, 2011, the SEC issued final rules and rule amendments to implement provisions of Title IV of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that exempt certain a...
On November 19, 2010, the SEC issued a release (the “Implementing Release”) in which it proposed rules and rule amendments, including various amendments to Form ADV, to implement cert...
