A compendium of our What’s the Deal? series, providing brief overviews of popular financing methodologies and securities issues and practice pointers, is now available for download here.
SEC Staff Guidance on Private Equity Line Financings
The Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission released today a new Compliance & Disclosure Interpretation, 139.13, relating to equity lines, and has withdrawn several C&DIs (see here). For convenience, the text of 139.13 is reprinted below.
Question 139.13
Question: In many equity line financings, the company…
Webinar: IFR US ECM Roundtable: The Great Equity Recapitalization in a Post-COVID-19 Funding Environment
Webinar Event
October 6, 2020, 4:30pm EDT
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This year’s US ECM Roundtable will be held as a virtual, two-part event, which will bring together senior market professionals to assess current themes in the industry and provide an outlook for the future.
The first webcast, titled The Great Equity Recapitalization in a Post-COVID-19…
Virtual Event: PLI’s Pocket MBA 2020: Finance for Lawyers and Other Professionals
Monday, September 21, 2020 and Tuesday, September 22, 2020
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The PLI Pocket MBA is for attorneys representing clients in the financial industry. This two-day program is designed to improve your understanding of business strategies, accounting fundamentals and vocabulary used by management, investors, auditors and bankers.
Partner Jen Carlson, co-chair of the event,…
Webinar: At-the-Market Offerings
Thursday, October 8, 2020
1:00pm – 2:00pm EDT
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Any issuer eligible to register its securities on Form S-3 should consider setting up an ATM program in order to maximize its opportunity to raise just-in-time capital. As a result of the economic downturn, volatility and uncertainty resulting from the pandemic, many issues have found…
PLI Webinar: Continuous Offerings: Equity Line Financings and At-the-Market Offerings
PLI Webinar
July 9, 2020
1:00 pm- 2:00 pm EDT
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Many smaller public companies seek access to financing through equity line financing arrangements. Equity line transactions often are confused with continuous offerings that are structured as at the market offering programs. Each financing alternative has distinct characteristics, and differ in important respects. During…
What’s the Deal? – ATM Offerings
An “at-the-market” (“ATM”) offering is an offering of securities into an existing trading market for the securities at a price or prices related to the then-market price of the securities. ATM offerings are continuous offerings, and provide issuers with a flexible way to raise modest amounts of capital with minimal market impact, at a low…
PLI Webinar: At-the-Market Offerings
Thursday, December 6, 2018
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EST
Any issuer eligible to register its securities on Form S-3 should consider setting up an ATM program in order to maximize its opportunity to raise just-in-time capital. Significant selling stockholders may also benefit from the flexibility of the ATM structure in order to take advantage…
Top 10 Practice Tips: At-The-Market Offerings
An at-the-market (ATM) offering is an offering of an issuer’s securities into the existing trading market for such securities at publicly available bid prices. An issuer’s internal legal team and outside counsel play critical roles in properly documenting an ATM offering. In this Lexis Top 10 Practice Tips: At-The-Market Offerings, we provide 10 practice…

