Carlos E. Juarez

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Carlos Juarez is a Summer Associate at Mayer Brown LLP and current J.D. candidate at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.

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The Securities and Exchange Commission’s accelerated Schedule 13G filing deadlines become effective September 30, 2024. On October 10, 2023, the SEC adopted changes to Schedules 13D and 13G relating to beneficial ownership reports (the “Final Rules”). The Final Rules are intended to modernize the rules governing beneficial ownership reporting and generally shorten the period for…

The Director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”), Erik Gerding, shared his views on the state of public company disclosures during 2023 and the SEC Staff’s review priorities for 2024.  The statements were made in April 2024 at the Practicing Law Institute’s 2024 The SEC Speaks Conference and were recently published in…

Based on data in Carta’s recently published State of the Markets report, the venture markets have experienced a slight uptick in number of deals and in dollars raised quarter-over-quarter.  Companies on Carta’s platform completed 4% more deals and raised 12% more capital during the second quarter of 2024 compared to the first quarter.  During the…

As part of a panel discussion at the Practising Law Institute’s 2024 SEC Speaks Conference held on April 2, 2024, the Director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, Erik Gerding, highlighted several risks and disclosures relating to commercial real estate (CRE) that the Staff has recently focused on and expects to continue to focus…

Last week, SIFMA released its annual Capital Markets Fact Book, which reports comprehensive data on capital markets activity generally.  The U.S. equity markets represent 42.6% of the $115 trillion global equity markets, with the second largest market, the EU, accounting for 11%.  U.S. ECM activity saw an increase of 39.9% year-over-year, with $139.1 billion raised…

Confidence in the IPO market is growing.  In the first six months of 2024, the IPO market has had its best start since the market boom of 2021, with approximately $20 billion raised in IPOs, according to a recent Bloomberg report.  Bloomberg reported three IPOs over $1 billion completed in the first half of 2024…

The PIPE market has proven to be resilient during times of stress.  In 2023, issuers raised over $33.8 billion in 809 PIPE transactions according to PrivateRaise.  This is considerably less than in 2021 during which issuers raised over $108.8 billion.  However, PIPE transaction activity has accelerated during the first five months of 2024.  Between…