Tagged: secondary market

May 4, 2015 @ 12:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

The growing number of securities in early stage companies is indicative of new funding channels for young innovative firms. Matching investor to issuer has been a challenging task in the path as the process has largely been cut off from mass distribution and discovery as the market… Read More

November 28, 2014 @ 7:32 am By Kim Wales  |  

The 2014 Securities and Exchange Commission Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation ensued on November 20, 2014 at the SEC headquarters in Washington, D.C. In usual form, since the signing of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), the crowd (attorney’s, issuers, intermediaries, regulators, investors,… Read More

October 18, 2014 @ 4:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

First State to Create Secondary Market for Privately Crowdfunded Securities. Tired of waiting on federal regulators to implement investment (aka equity) crowdfunding for all investors, several Midwestern states, including Michigan, have legalized intrastate investment crowdfunding. Now, with the pending passage of HB 5273, Michigan’s effort… Read More

October 17, 2014 @ 4:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has earlier announced that it will hold its annual Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation at its Washington, D.C. headquarters on November 20, 2014.  As part of the annual gathering the morning session will tackle the definition of… Read More

March 1, 2014 @ 11:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Today The Detroit News has published a short editorial in support of Michigan HB 5273 (embedded, bottom of article), a bill that seeks to cement Michigan’s recently-passed intrastate crowdfunding exemption by creating secondary markets where crowdfunded shares can be traded. The bill’s primary sponsor is a… Read More

January 30, 2014 @ 1:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Privanet and equity based crowdfunding platform Invesdor have partnered to offer a secondary market for crowdfunded offerings.  Both are based in Helsinki, Finland. Privanet is a specialist in the trading of unlisted shares. The company, which was founded in 2000, is supervised by the Finnish Financial… Read More

December 12, 2013 @ 9:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Annemarie Tierney is General Counsel for SecondMarket, an online marketplace for buying and selling illiquid assets in the United States. SecondMarket burst onto the scene during the run-up to the Facebook IPO by facilitating transactions in Facebook shares sold by Facebook employees to members of… Read More