Drie experts, drie antwoorden: hoe om te gaan met tegenstrijdige adviezen over Reg A+
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When three experts give you three different answers on a Regulation A+ question, there is more work to do. I dig deeper rather than treating any one answer as the verdict. Even advice that every advisor agrees on can fall behind as SEC practice evolves.
Founders and CFOs assembling an advisory team can run into conflicting guidance from securities attorneys. This article describes how I think about that situation. It is a decision process, not a legal conclusion.
What Conflicting Reg A+ Legal Advice Tells You
When you speak to three experts and you get three different answers, you have more work to do. In my experience, that happens often with securities attorneys. I have been in many situations where the advice I received was contradictory, and I have had to dig deeper.
I treat that kind of disagreement as information that the question needs more work. I do not treat it as a verdict. For context, Reg D, Reg A+, and Reg S each have nuances, and in my experience Reg A+ has the most.
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A Case Where Long-Standing Advice Changed
Companies sometimes run a Reg D offering alongside a Reg A+ offering, or use bonus shares, to give large investors advantageous terms so that institutional investors will participate.
For many years, the best securities attorneys told me the same thing whenever a company wanted to run both offerings at the same time. If the company is selling the same security in both, they said, it should have the same share price. The SEC would not allow even the smallest share price differential
Then I saw an instance where a company ran both Reg D and Reg A+ offerings with deep discounts available for Reg D investors that invested huge amounts of capital. In the Reg A+ offering, discounts are delivered via bonus shares, which work as an effective discount - the max discount the SEC allows by this method is 20%. An institutional investor putting in millions of dollars demands a much lower share price than an investor putting in $300.
SEC practice has evolved to allow companies to follow that model of discounting for institutional investors via the Reg D. This is now common practice. Not everyone knows this.
What Evolving SEC Practice Means for Advice
The advice in that case came from the best securities attorneys, and it still fell out of step with SEC practice. SEC practices evolve.
Veelgestelde Vragen / FAQ
What does it mean when securities attorneys give different answers on Reg A+?
When I get conflicting answers from securities attorneys, I treat it as a sign that there is more work to do, and I dig deeper before making a recommendation to my customer CEO.
Why can Reg A+ advice conflict?
SEC practices can evolve, and there have been situations where long-standing advice no longer matched up-to-date practice. Some attorneys were up to date, some were not.
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Over de auteur
Oprichter en CEO, Manhattan Street Capital
Rod Turner is de oprichter en CEO van Manhattan Street Capital, waar hij het platform ontwikkelde dat groeibedrijven gebruiken om online financieringsrondes volgens Regulation A+ te organiseren.
Eerder hielp hij mee aan de opbouw van Symantec/Norton, Ashton Tate, MicroPort en Knowledge Adventure, en richtte hij de durfkapitaalfirma Irvine Ventures op, waarmee hij investeerde in bedrijven zoals Bloom, Amyris, Ask Jeeves en eASIC.
De toelichting op deze pagina weerspiegelt Rods observaties van wat doorgaans werkt bij online marketing voor kapitaalwerving. Het betreft geen juridisch, boekhoudkundig of beleggingsadvies.
Manhattan Street Capital is geen advocatenkantoor, taxatiebureau, underwriter, broker-dealer of crowdfundingplatform (Title III) en verricht geen activiteiten waarvoor een dergelijke registratie vereist is. Manhattan Street Capital verstrekt geen beleggingsadvies en structureert geen transacties. Beschouw geen commentaar van medewerkers van Manhattan Street Capital als vervanging voor advies van gekwalificeerde dienstverleners in deze vakgebieden. Wanneer Rod Turner commentaar levert, is dit gebaseerd op zijn observaties van wat wel en niet werkt vanuit een marketingperspectief bij online aanbiedingen; hij vertelt lezers niet wat ze moeten doen, maar alleen wat online het meest kosteneffectief kan worden aangeboden. Alle beslissingen over de voorwaarden van een aanbieding worden genomen door de bedrijven die deze aanbiedingen doen.
