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Proposed Amendment Shortens Settlement from Three to Two Business Days
The public meeting will be live streamed on the SEC website and agenda includes the current hot topic of unequal voting rights of shares.
The Snap founders’ overwhelming and much talked-about control of the company appears to be a reaction to onerous venture capital investment terms that they did not understand and diluted their power and were simply called “standard” by their lawyers.
Rights offerings have evolved into a transformative corporate transaction providing an opportunity to raise capital from existing shareholders first, then from the general public, via a streamlined registration on Form S-1 or shelf takedown with a built-in best efforts standby underwriting for outside investors.
Domino’s “Piece of the Pie Rewards” program is turning customers into shareholders.
At least half a dozen U.S. coal firms are preparing or exploring public offerings, according to The Wall Street Journal, kicking off the biggest wave of coal IPOs in two decades.
Airbnb and Uber, among others, have strong incentives to push back against laws and regulations with asymmetric costs and benefits.
Despite rising stock prices in 2016, it was a down year for the number and dollar-volume of IPOs, and a decline in the number of U.S.-listed public companies. The Wall Street Journal is concerned about the causes and effects of the IPO slump.
Important considerations for the upcoming proxy season.
Print out and save these pages containing important SEC reporting deadlines for upcoming filings by calendar - fiscal year end public companies.