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Amending the Ban on General Solicitation and Advertising
Posted on 20 Jan 2012 by Doug Cornelius

There seems to be some momentum for changes to the Regulation D's prohibition on advertising a private fund offering. The Managed Funds Association has asked the SEC to start a rulemaking and one of the SEC's new advisory committees has also... Read More

JOBS Act SEC Proposed Rules: Solicitation & Advertising for Private Offerings
Posted on 15 Nov 2012 by Perkins Coie

by Karl J. Ege, Mel Wheaton, Danielle Benderly, and James T. Carroll Excerpt: The SEC recently issued long-awaited proposed rules to remove existing general solicitation and advertising prohibitions for private offerings and sales of securities... Read More

New Era in Private Capital Raising – Opening Up General Solicitation and General Advertising
Posted on 26 Aug 2015 by Sands Anderson PC

by David Carroll The next few years may be the largest watershed event in opening up private equity capital since the 1980s when Regulation D was first published by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). By allowing general solicitation... Read More

New Era in Private Capital Raising – Opening Up General Solicitation and General Advertising
Posted on 26 Aug 2015 by Doug Esten

by David Carroll The next few years may be the largest watershed event in opening up private equity capital since the 1980s when Regulation D was first published by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). By allowing general solicitation... Read More

More Calls to Relax General Solicitation Rules in Private Offerings
Posted on 19 Jan 2012 by Andrew Ledbetter

In addition to legislative initiatives we've previously discussed, we continue to see efforts to relax the general solicitation prohibition in private offerings. For example, the SEC's Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies recently... Read More