What is an “exemption from registration?” Regulation D’s Rule 504 and Rule 506 grant exemptions from registration if different requirements are met. Rule 504 Rule 504 of Regulation D provides an exemption from registration for a 12-month period on the offer and sale of up to $5,000,000. Rule 504 permits general offerings and solicitations so…
Continue reading ›Is the Securities and Exchange Commission Helping or Harming Cryptocurrency Entrepreneurs? Hester M. Pierce. Commissioner to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) gave a speech via video in Zug, Switzerland on November 7, 2018 on the impressions that the United States regulatory environment is giving to today’s cryptocurrency entrepreneurs. At the beginning of her…
Continue reading ›SEC Charges Two Celebrities with Unlawfully Touting Initial Coin Offerings On November 29, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) charged two celebrities with unlawfully touting initial coin offerings (“ICOs”). This is the first time that the SEC has brought touting violation charges involving ICOs. Professional boxer, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and music producer Khaled Khaled,…
Continue reading ›SEC Charges Promoter with Penny Stock Market Manipulation Scheme The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) charged a public company promoter and his company with conducting a scheme to manipulate trading in at least 97 penny stocks. According to the SEC’s complaint filed November 28, 2018, Eric Landis arranged with third party advertisers for publicly traded,…
Continue reading ›SEC Forces Initial Coin Offering Issuers to Register Tokens as Securities The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) charged two companies, CarrierEQ Inc. (“Airfox”) and Paragon Coin Inc., (“Paragon”) who conducted Initial Coin Offerings (“ICOs”) after the SEC published its famous DAO Report of Investigation concerning the topic of ICOs. On November 16, 2018, after an…
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