Venture capital is a form of financing that is typically provided by venture capital firms or funds to companies that are in a growth stage in exchange for equity securities of such companies. In recent years it has become standard in the venture capital industry to use a number of different documents in such financings. … Continue Reading
Introduction While many people in the global business community know that Japan is the world’s third largest economy, it is not as well known that Japan is also home to the world’s third largest stock exchange, the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). The TSE’s popularity is due in part to its high liquidity, with an average … Continue Reading
Greenberg Traurig will be sponsoring two major Israel events this coming week. The first is the OurCrowd Global Investor Summit (January 25-26), set to bring together 3,000 investors and companies from 50 different countries. Shareholder and Israel Practice Co-Chair, Bob Grossman will be speaking at the opening planery. Israel Practice Co-Chairan, Tel-Aviv Managing Shareholder, and Global Corporate & Securities Practice Senior … Continue Reading
The U.S. regulators have long been considering ways to make it easier for early-stage startup companies to raise capital in a more flexible and less cumbersome method. The SEC has finally published regulations providing emerging companies with access to U.S. “crowd” investors making smaller investments. Although the new regulations are perhaps less of a radical … Continue Reading
Things can go cataclysmically wrong for offshore fund managers investing in the United States in the most unexpected manner, at the most unexpected time. A complete list of potential fund-manager tsuris is beyond the scope of this Alert. However, one issue that routinely keeps fund managers awake at night is the specter of their funds’ … Continue Reading
Rule 13q-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, adopted by the SEC in August 2012 as part of the Dodd‐Frank mandate, was vacated by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on July 2nd, 2013. The rule, which imposed annual reporting requirements on “resource extraction issuers” relating to payments made to a … Continue Reading
