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As part of our continued support for emerging companies and investors impacted by the SVB receivership, we launched a legal resource center with additional Q&As and specific legal form documents that are freely available.
March 13, 2023 Webinar
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EDT, 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. IL
Join Mayer Brown Financial Services Regulatory & Enforcement partners, Jeffrey Taft and Matthew Bisanz, and Banking & Finance partner, Meir Dominitz, together with ERM Finance and Banking partner, Amnon Epstein, for an interactive discussion on
The receivership of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10th has raised questions and concerns. A number of Mayer Brown partners have prepared this Q&A to provide some insight.
According to data aggregated by Carta, an ownership and equity management platform, private capital raising trends noticeably shifted in 2022. Companies in Carta’s database raised $107 billion in 6,123 deals in 2022. Overall, deal count declined by 29% and capital raised dropped by 50% in 2022 compared to 2021. While venture deals in 2021 broke
CB Insights’ State of Insurtech 2022 provides a perspective on trends in the sector. In 2022, global insurtech funding fell over 50% to $8.4 billion, following 2021’s record-breaking total funding of $17.8 billion. With about $1 billion in funding, the fourth quarter of 2022 marked the lowest amount raised since the second quarter 2018.
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Today, February 7, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee will host a meeting to discuss several matters. The Committee will discuss alternatives to traditional bank and venture capital funding for small and mid-size private companies. Next, the Committee will discuss rules and amendments first proposed in February 2022 pertaining
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation issued on December 16, 2022 its 2022 Annual Report to the U.S. Congress and to the SEC detailing how entrepreneurs, investors, and private and smaller public companies are engaging in capital raising. The Report provides a wealth of data from the
The CB Insights’ State of Venture Report for the third quarter of 2022 notes that global venture funding declined to $74.5 billion in the third quarter, down 58% from the funding peak in the fourth quarter of 2021. This represents a quarter-over-quarter contraction of 34%, the largest quarterly percentage drop in a decade, with the
The SEC’s Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation (“OASB”) recently issued its 2021 Annual Report (the “Report”), which reviews the capital raising activities of a variety of companies, from startups and emerging businesses to smaller public companies. The OASB, together with the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, provided updated data