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SEC Rolls Out Update to Rule 147 Intrastate Offerings On April 20, 2017, amendments to Rule 147 and new Rule 147A, federal exemptions for intrastate offerings, finally went into effect. The amendments to Rule 147 and new Rule 147A are intended to modernize and update the exemption that allows companies to raise money from investors

SEC Releases New Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations on Reg CF Yesterday, the SEC’s Division of Corporate Finance released two new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) answering questions related to Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF). CD&Is are the Commission’s way of giving some informal guidance, through a question and answer format, on how its staff members interpret

Update on Regulation D: Data from 2016 Form D’s It’s been over a year since the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) published its report on Private Securities Offerings post-JOBS Act. And while since that time, DERA has published more data about Regulation CF and Regulation A, the SEC has yet to offer

Discussing Fintech with a policy leader. On Monday March 6, 2017, Congressman Patrick McHenry gave keynote remarks at the Lendit Conference in New York City. Among the themes of his speech, McHenry talked about the need for financial inclusion, citing a statistic that counties with less than 100,000 saw a decrease in small businesses. At

Syndication….? “What is a real estate syndication?” is a question our firm is asked often. Maybe you’re a developer, a real estate investor, or someone looking to expand your business by taking in outside investors to fund a larger project that you wouldn’t be able to do by yourself. Or maybe a friend or acquaintance

So, you want to start a real estate crowdfunding (RECF) platform. This article is intended to serve as a basic guide. Decide on what you want to do There are many different types of crowdfunding platforms. You need to first make some business decisions as to what kind of platform you want to form: Will

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Crowdfund Your Business in Less than One Month! Introduction to Crowdfunding Crowdfunding campaigns tend to look like sexy, overnight successes, but rarely are the successful ones so effortless. What I’m about to say sounds dumb—so dumb that I’m reluctant to have to even say it—but a lot of folks call thinking that crowdfunding is easy

The Difference Between Syndication and Crowdfunding Syndication and crowdfunding are terms that have been used interchangeably within the last decade, and their concepts and meaning have become increasingly blurred. However, whereas syndication focuses on funding relationships and structure between the funder and funded, crowdfunding is a method of finding investors (or backers) with the cornerstone

This article originally appeared on CrowdfundInsider This article is a response to the draft paper referenced in the article entitled “Crowdfunding and the Not-So-Safe SAFE” authored by Joseph M. Green and John F. Coyle. There are many so words to describe my thoughts about the paper: patronizing, impractical, misguided—but mostly, unfortunate. One might attribute the