VOLUME 1
PART I EXEMPT SECURITIES AND TRANSACTIONS
Chapter 1 Overview of Federal Private Placement Exemptions
Chapter 2 The Regulation D Exemption
Chapter 3 Offerings of Securities Pursuant to Regulation A
Chapter 4 Securities Regulation of Sales of Oil and Gas Interests
Chapter 5 Section 3(a)(9): Recapitalizations
Chapter 6 Section 3(a)(10): Officially Sanctioned Exchanges
Chapters 7-12 [Reserved]
PART II THE REGISTERED FIRST OFFERING
Chapter 13 The Registered First Offering
Chapter 14 Registration Process in a Nutshell
Chapter 15 The Initial Underwritten Public Offering
VOLUME 2
Chapters 16-18 [Reserved]
Chapter 19 Preparing the Registration Statement
Chapter 20 SEC Regulation of Financial Reporting in the Integrated Disclosure
System
Chapter 21 [Reserved]
Chapter 22 The Process of Becoming Effective
Chapter 23 Shelf Registration and Related Due Diligence Challenges
Chapter 24 Blue Sky Registration
Chapter 25 NASD Rules for Public Offerings
VOLUME 3
Chapter 26 Regulation M
Chapter 27 Problems of Debt Offerings
Chapter 28 Post-Effective Matters
Chapter 29 Using Forms SB-1 and SB-2
Chapter 30 Responsibilities for Registered Offerings
Chapters 31-35 [Reserved]
PART III SUBSEQUENT OFFERINGS
Chapter 36 Additional Public Offerings: Uses of Various Forms
Chapter 37 Secondary Offerings
Chapter 38 Rule 144
Chapter 39 Rule 144A
VOLUME 4
PART IV BEING PUBLIC
Chapters 40-46 [Reserved]
Chapter 47 The Nasdaq Stock MarketSM
Chapter 48 Problems in Trading
Chapter 49 Registration Under the Exchange Act
Chapter 50 Annual Report to the CommissionForm 10-K
Chapter 51 Preparation of Proxy Statements and Annual Reports to Shareholders
Chapter 52 [Reserved]
Chapter 53 Shareholder Initiatives
Chapter 54 Conducting the Annual Meeting
Chapter 55 Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or 10-QSB
Chapter 56 Current Reports on Form 8-K
Chapters 57-59 [Reserved]
Chapter 60 Admission of Securities to Official Listing on Stock Exchanges
Within the European Union and the Subsequent Disclosure Obligations
Chapters 61-63 [Reserved]
VOLUME 5
PART V CORPORATE CHANGES
Chapter 64 Public Limited Partnerships
Chapter 65 Preparing the Business Combination Registration Statement
Chapter 66 Why, When and How To Conduct a Proxy Contest For Corporate
Control
Chapter 67 Going Private Rule 13e-3
Chapter 68 State Law on Going Private: Developments in Delaware Law
Chapter 69 Repurchases of SharesState of State Law
Chapter 70 Williams ActAn Overview
Chapter 71 Williams Act Beneficial Ownership Disclosure
Chapter 72 Williams ActTender Offer Regulation
VOLUME 6
Chapter 73 Leveraged Buyouts
Chapters 74-79 [Reserved]
PART VI INSIDER TRADING
Chapter 80 Insider Trading UnderSection 10(b) of the SecuritiesExchange Act
Chapter 81 Insider Trading Under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act
Chapter 82 Complying With the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
PART VII INVESTMENT COMPANIES AND INVESTMENT ADVISORS
Chapter 83 Investment Company Act Of 1940
Chapter 84 The Investment Advisers Act of 1940
TITLE II: LITIGATION
PART I SRO AND SEC PROCEEDINGS
Chapter 85 Self-Regulatory Organization Proceedings
Chapter 86 Arbitration
Chapter 87 SEC Proceedings An Overview
Chapter 88 Securities Enforcement Investigations
Chapter 88A The SEC Standards of Professional Conduct For Attorneys
Chapter 89 The SEC Administrative Hearing
Chapter 90 SEC Injunctive Proceedings
VOLUME 7
PART II PRIVATE LITIGATION
Chapter 91 LitigationAn Overview
Chapter 92 Class Actions
Chapter 93 Blue Sky Litigation
Chapters 94-106 [Reserved]
PART III COMMON ISSUES IN PRIVATE LITIGATION
Chapter 107 The Uses and Functions of Experts in Securities Litigation
Chapter 108 Practice Before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Chapter 109 The Attorney-Client Privilege and the Work-Product Doctrine
Chapter 110 Collateral Estoppel
Chapters 111-118 [Reserved]
PART IV INVESTIGATIONS
Chapter 119 Internal Corporate Investigations
Chapter 120 Bankruptcy Trustee and Examiner Investigations
PART V INDEMNIFICATION AND INSURANCE
Chapter 121 Indemnification and Securities Litigation
Chapter 122 Directors and Officers and Related Forms of Liability Insurance
Sommer, Jr., A.A.
Alphonse Adam Sommer, Jr. (1924-2002) was the General Editor of the Securities Regulation Series: Federal Securities Act of 1933, Federal Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Securities Primary Law Sourcebook,and of Securities Law Techniques and Blue Sky Regulation, all from Matthew Bender.
Mr. Sommer was a Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1973-1976. Since 1994, Mr. Sommer has been Counsel to Morgan Lewis & Bockius in Washington D.C. Prior to that, he was a partner with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius (1979-1994), Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (1977-1979), Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue (1976-1977), and Calfee, Halter, Calfee, Griswold & Sommer (1950-1973).
Mr. Sommer was the Chairman of the Public Oversight Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Deputy Chairman, Capital Markets Forum, International Bar Association; and Member, Board of Governors, NASDR.
He received an A.B. from Notre Dame, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He received an LL.D. from Cleveland State University in 1976.
Mr. Sommer participated in programs with respect to capital formation in Manila, Phillippines; Jakarta, Indonesia; Seoul, South Korea; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Tokyo, Japan. In addition, he served as consultant to the governments of many countries, including Jordan, Taiwan, Egypt, and the People's Republic of China, with respect to securities regulation. He served as consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank with respect to the organization of a securities regulatory body in Trinidad and Tobago. He sits on the Advisory Board of several publications, including Securities Regulation and Law Report (BNA), Journal of Corporation Law, The Corporate Director, Corporate Accounting, and The Review of Securities Regulation. In addition, he served on the Advisory Board of the University of Southern California SEC and Financial Reporting Institute.