Three Experts, Three Answers: How to Work Through Conflicting Reg A+ Advice
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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.
Perguntas frequentes
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.
Dúvidas?
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Sobre o autor
Fundador e CEO da Manhattan Street Capital
Rod Turner é o fundador e CEO da Manhattan Street Capital, onde construiu a plataforma que empresas em fase de crescimento utilizam para realizar captações de recursos online, de acordo com a Regulação A+.
Anteriormente, ele ajudou a construir a Symantec/Norton, a Ashton Tate, a MicroPort e a Knowledge Adventure, além de ter criado a empresa de capital de risco Irvine Ventures, investindo em empresas como Bloom, Amyris, Ask Jeeves e eASIC.
Os comentários nesta página refletem as observações de Rod sobre o que tende a funcionar no marketing online para captação de recursos. Não se trata de aconselhamento jurídico, contábil ou de investimento.
A Manhattan Street Capital não é um escritório de advocacia, serviço de avaliação, subscritora, corretora de valores mobiliários ou plataforma de financiamento coletivo (crowdfunding) do Título III, e não se envolve em nenhuma atividade que exija tal registro. A Manhattan Street Capital não oferece consultoria de investimentos e não estrutura transações. Não interprete nenhum comentário da equipe da Manhattan Street Capital como substituto para aconselhamento de profissionais qualificados nessas áreas. Quando Rod Turner comenta, baseia-se em suas observações sobre o que funciona e o que não funciona, do ponto de vista de marketing, em ofertas online; ele não diz aos leitores o que fazer, apenas o que tem maior probabilidade de ser comercializado online com custo-benefício. Todas as decisões sobre os termos de qualquer oferta são tomadas pelas empresas que a realizam.
