Top 10 Practice Tips: Private Placements

Summary

This top 10 practice tips discusses practice points that you should be mindful of in steering a private placement transaction from start to finish. Over the course of many years, several exemptions from registration have been introduced, expanded, and revised by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), providing companies with a broad range of potential private financing opportunities that can be executed more quickly and with less expense than traditional public registered securities offerings. However, the legal and regulatory landscape can be complex and nuanced and private placements require thoughtful analysis.