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Dodd-Frank VII: Big Picture Thoughts
By David Feldman at 28 July, 2010, 7:21 am
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 [...]
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China De-Brief Part II
By David Feldman at 3 June, 2010, 7:49 am
Now that the long Memorial Day weekend is behind us and I have had a few days to become somewhat unburied from being out of the office for my China trip, I have a few minutes to provide more information about my trip.
The highlight of the trip was DealFlow Media’s International PIPE Conference in Shanghai. [...]
China De-Brief Part I
By David Feldman at 27 May, 2010, 2:52 am
I am heading home after a fascinating 9-day trip to Beijing and Shanghai. Much to tell about the PIPE Conference, but we’ll save that for later posts. Here I just thought I would start with random notes and observations about China in mid-2010:
1. More and more Chinese have their email traveling with them as the [...]
China, China, China
By David Feldman at 14 May, 2010, 10:16 am
In real estate, they say, the three most important things are location, location and location. In the 2000 contested US presidential election the mantra was Florida, Florida, Florida. In reverse mergers these days, well it’s China, China and China. Fully one -third of the reverse merger transactions in the last few years have come from [...]
Read More >>Check out my podcasts!
By David Feldman at 12 May, 2010, 10:53 am
I’ve started doing podcasts on various reverse merger and IPO alternative topics. You can find them on my firm’s website at http://www.feldmanllp.com/feldman-podcasts.htm. I’ll also post links here. The first one I did was an overview of SEC Rule 144(i). You can hear it right here: feldman-on-rule-144i-3-2-102
Enjoy!
Thanks for the Book Review!
By David Feldman at 10 May, 2010, 6:00 am
Prolific author and commentator Steven Bragg was kind enough to review the new edition of my book Reverse Mergers and Other Alternatives to a Traditional IPO (Bloomberg Press, 2009). I am honored to have received 4-1/2 stars from Mr. Bragg, the highest rating he has ever given! You can find the full review at http://www.accountingtools.com/Book-Reviews/Reverse-Mergers.html.
As the [...]
Can You Legislate Ethics?
By David Feldman at 8 May, 2010, 6:36 pm
Sarbanes-Oxley. The Securities Act of 1933. SEC Rule 419 regulating reverse mergers. The SEC’s latest super-hyped and interestingly timed fraud case against the venerable Goldman Sachs. And now Congress’ attempt at reforming the finance industry. Let’s put politics aside (we do our best to be a non-political blog) and think about the real purpose of all [...]
Read More >>Tip of the Week: Raising Money Great Reason to Go Public - If it’s Available
By David Feldman at 3 May, 2010, 6:15 am
Probably the single most common reason that companies consider going public, whether through IPO, reverse merger, self-filing or other method, is the greater access to capital, typically at more favorable valuations, than might be the case if the company remained private. In real estate the most important values are location, location, location. In going public [...]
Read More >>My ABA Panel: Part IV - Dodd Bill’s Treatment of Rule 506 Preemption: Off the Table?
By David Feldman at 27 April, 2010, 12:07 pm
You may recall from prior blog posts that the bill that Sen. Chris Dodd’s Banking Committee passed, known as the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010, contained a provision authorizing the SEC to designate a class of securities as not “covered securities” (which are exempt from state securities regulation) if an offering is not [...]
Read More >>My ABA Panel: Part III - Is the PCAOB Unconstitutional?
By David Feldman at 26 April, 2010, 3:01 pm
Many of us attending my American Bar Association panel last Friday had not been aware that a case has been pending before the US Supreme Court questioning whether the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is constitutionally created. Arguments took place last December, and a panelist employed by the PCAOB was joking as to whether she [...]
Read More >>My ABA Panel: Part II - Sarbanes 404(b) Relief?
By David Feldman at 25 April, 2010, 9:30 am
As you know from this space, we have been trying to keep tabs on Congressional activity regarding securities industry reform. Recall that the House passed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 in December. In the Senate, Chris Dodd’s Banking Committee has passed the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010, which [...]
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