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The tsunami has all but ended in a defeat for many investors and companies. There is finally good news for equity investors. The JOBS Act 3.0 The jobs act 1.0 and 2.0 delivered a disruption to investing and helped propel small businesses into multimillion-dollar companies.  The great rush of Reg. A and Reg. D and  Equity Crowdfunding seems to have...

Wall Street has a new obsession: special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). SPACs are an alternative to the traditional way businesses raise money known as initial public offerings (IPOs). Since January 1, 2021 SPACs have raised over $88 billion, making up 83 percent of public offerings this year and raising more money than they did in all of 2020. As investment banks and professional investors celebrate this booming...

SEC’s Investment Rule Updates and Cannabis Fundraising Recently the SEC updated its rules to simplify the patchwork of regulations to help companies in fundraising mode. This matters to cannabis companies of all types, especially those that want to utilize the available federal exemptions in their securities offerings. In the SEC’s own words, “These amendments will promote capital formation and expand investment opportunities while...

Regulation D Explained: What Are Regulation D Offerings in Real Estate Crowdfunding? Real estate crowdfunding, or the practice of funding a real estate investing venture by raising a small amount of money from a large number of people, typically over the internet, has been gaining in popularity over recent years. To that end, investors who hope to use this method to get...

Reg CF is increasing from $1.07 million to $5 million. This change alone should see Regulation Crowdfunding investment exceed $1 billion in 2021 (up from around $250 million over the last 12 months). Founders will be able to “test the waters” (i.e. explore potential investor demand) before officially launching a Reg CF round and filing a Form C. Regulation Crowdfunding allows startup...

Why Aurora Cannabis, Aphria, Cronos Group, and Other Marijuana Stocks Crashed Today Traders are bailing out of pot stocks. But should they be? What happened Cannabis stocks plunged on Thursday as traders rushed to take profits in companies that analysts say have seen their share prices rise too far, too fast. Here's how some of the most popular marijuana stocks were performing as...

Wanda Group, AMC's Largest Shareholder, Converts Common Stock To Facilitate Sale China’s Wanda Group, the major shareholder in AMC Entertainment Holdings Ltd, conducted a share conversion to permit sales of its stock in the cinema operator, a target of the recent WallStreetBets retail frenzy, AMC said in an exchange filing. Wanda America Entertainment Inc, a Wanda unit, converted its Class B...

Washington D.C., Dec. 18, 2020 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against California-based biotechnology company Decision Diagnostics Corp. and its CEO, Keith Berman, with making false and misleading claims in numerous press releases that the company had developed a working, break-through technology that could accurately detect Covid-19 through a quick blood test. The SEC temporarily suspended...

Merck Declares Sale of Direct Fairness Funding in Moderna Merck introduced in the present day that it divested its direct holding in Moderna within the first half of the fourth quarter of 2020. Merck, which had invested $50 million in Moderna in 2015 and a further $125 million in 2018, mentioned it might retain oblique publicity by way of its enterprise...

Purdue Pharma Pleads Responsible to Three Felonies Over OxyContin Misconduct Purdue Pharma LP pleaded responsible to prison costs over the dealing with of its addictive prescription painkiller OxyContin, capping a take care of federal prosecutors to resolve an investigation into the drugmaker’s function within the U.S. opioid disaster. Throughout a courtroom listening to carried out remotely on Tuesday earlier than U.S....