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Equity Crowdfunding in New Zealand

‘Equity crowdfunding’—small Internet-based public securities offerings exempt from the usual regulations for such transactions—is an exciting new source for entrepreneurial finance, and New Zealand has emerged as a worldwide leader...

30 October 2018

Andrew A. Schwartz

Securities Regulation in Virtual Space

The interaction of securities regulation and technology creates a vast array of complex issues, including whether certain things constitute securities at all. For example, the United States Securities and Exchange...

31 August 2018

Eric C. Chaffee

The Crypto Puzzle

One of the central predictions of the law and finance literature is that strong investor protection laws will promote the development of strong markets. This prediction rests on the observation...

22 June 2018

Dan Awrey

Disgorgement After Kokesh – Evidence from Insider Trading

For about 50 years – at least since Texas Gulf Sulphur – the SEC has ordered defendants to disgorge their profits from transactions that violated the securities laws. Despite disgorgement’s...

14 May 2018

Verity Winship

How Do I Sell My Crowdfunded Shares? Developing Exchanges and Markets to Trade Securities Issued by Start-ups and Small Companies

Governments worldwide are increasingly recognizing that assisting the development of start-ups and small to medium enterprises (SMEs) is critical to fostering job creation and economic growth. As such, many governments...

12 February 2018

Janet Austin

Bond Workouts, Distressed Equity Offerings and State Interventionism - The Inefficiency of French Law Concerning the Restructuring of Large Distressed Companies

In my most recent paper, ‘Bond workouts, distressed equity offerings and State interventionism - Analysis of the Consequences of the Inefficiency of French Law Concerning the Restructuring of Large...

17 October 2017

Sophie Vermeille

Tech Business Law: Initial Coin Offerings ('ICOs') and The DAO Decision

On 25 July 2017 the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (‘US SEC’) issued a report of investigation in which it classified The Decentralized Autonomous Organization’s (‘The DAO’s’) Tokens as...

31 August 2017

E Joan

Peter Crane

The Twilight Zone: OTC Regulatory Regimes and Market Quality

More than 8,000 domestic equity securities were publicly traded in the U.S. OTC market in 2010. Yet, research studying this market is limited. Stocks in this market tend to be...

A Regulatory Outlook on Initial Coin Offerings

As of July 7th, 2017, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have raised over USD 380 million this year in exchange for the issuance of cryptocurrency. In the last 12 months or...

3 August 2017

Suprotik Das

Arjya Majumdar

District Judge Rules That Dodd-Frank Allows SEC to Bring Securities Fraud Claims Over Certain Foreign Transactions

Last week a Utah federal judge ruled that a provision of Dodd-Frank[1] authorizes the US Securities and Exchange Commission (‘SEC’) to bring fraud claims concerning securities bought...

20 April 2017

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Equity Crowdfunding in New Zealand

Securities Regulation in Virtual Space

The Crypto Puzzle

Disgorgement After Kokesh – Evidence from Insider Trading

How Do I Sell My Crowdfunded Shares? Developing Exchanges and Markets to Trade Securities Issued by Start-ups and Small Companies

Bond Workouts, Distressed Equity Offerings and State Interventionism - The Inefficiency of French Law Concerning the Restructuring of Large Distressed Companies

Tech Business Law: Initial Coin Offerings ('ICOs') and The DAO Decision

The Twilight Zone: OTC Regulatory Regimes and Market Quality

A Regulatory Outlook on Initial Coin Offerings

District Judge Rules That Dodd-Frank Allows SEC to Bring Securities Fraud Claims Over Certain Foreign Transactions

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