Reverse Mergers

See You at the Rodman Conference

Now of course I love all my investment banking friends. A number of firms regularly put on conferences that include great presentations by interesting companies and, usually, some fun entertainment as well. And best of all they’re usually free! Being here in NY, I always enjoy the annual Rodman & Renshaw conference, this year being [...]

Another Unfortunate Barron’s Article on China

Barron’s magazine is once again trashing Chinese reverse mergers. In Thursday’s issue they lay out an extensive investigation of the history, players and performance of Chinese reverse mergers. They acknowledge that about 350 Chinese companies have gone public since 2004, when the pace really started to pick up. They point to a handful of problems [...]

Back from R&R…&B

Vacations, well they are no longer just rest and relaxation. These days they are rest and relaxation and Blackberry! I just got back from a little break with the family that was actually none of the above. We ran around in a fun place doing fun things all the while dealing with several ongoing deals [...]

Good Second Quarter for Reverse Mergers

Now that we have completed the Dodd-Frank Show here at the RM blog, it’s time to return to our title topic (though not much to report on SPACs, in fact there’s been no new SPAC Report from DealFlow since late May)! The good news is, according to The Reverse Merger Report, that reverse merger deal volume [...]

Dodd-Frank VII: Big Picture Thoughts

If you are seriously A.D.D., and my summaries of summaries of the Dodd-Frank bill took too long, here I’ll give the big overview of the bill as it may affect smaller public companies. I want to give credit to Weil Gotshal & Manges, Davis Polk & Wardwell, as well as the Harvard Law School Forum on [...]

Dodd-Frank Part V: Sarbanes Relief at Last

As I write this taking a break from the M&A conference I’m speaking at in Chicago, Pres. Obama is speaking before signing the historic Dodd-Frank bill. By the way, I’ve changed my mind and no longer want to call it “Dank.” I thought it was a cute combination of Dodd and Frank, but I thought [...]

RM Crowd Heads North - Part III

In this last report from the Toronto Reverse Merger Conference, there was some discussion about the latest developments in the stock markets and regulatory environment. A few snippets:

FINRA’s plan to establish a “quotation collection facility” or QCF is meeting strong opposition from Pink OTC Markets and others as a method to “steal quotes” from other [...]

RM Crowd Heads North - Part II

While a large chunk of the RM Conference in Toronto focused on Canadian stuff, there was a good panel updating everyone on China. There continues to be a “flood” of financings for Chinese companies that look to be or already are trading in the US. Valuations have been compressing and slowing things a bit, with [...]

RM Crowd Heads North - Part I

This is the first installment on observations and thoughts concerning this week’s Reverse Merger Conference in Toronto. There were a number of good panels as always, though attendance overall was down over previous years (probably due to the impending Canadian and US national holidays among other things).
Since we were in Canada, the first presentation was [...]

Off to Toronto

As I mentioned here last week, I’m heading soon to Toronto to attend DealFlow Media’s annual Reverse Merger Conference which takes place June 29 and 30. The panel I am moderating is late on the 29th and is all about Form 10 shells. The bottom line that I believe our panel will relate: Form 10 [...]