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A fast casual dining restaurant chain plans to be the first issuer to offer a dividend as a means to sell investors on its Regulation A+ public offering. FAT Brands, which owns the FAT Burger and Buffalo’s Cafe casual restaurant franchises, announced on August 3 it is working exclusively with Tripoint Global Securities to qualify a Tier 2 offering with the hopes of raising $20 million.
Former supermodel turned home goods design magnate Kathy Ireland has teamed up with a fashion and beauty company, Level Brands, that is preparing to file to go public via a Regulation A offering. Level Brands had previously filed a confidential S-I filing for a traditional IPO, but switched to Reg A in late July.
An equity crowdfunding offering by a food truck franchiser has been withdrawn after federal authorities arrested 14 individuals who are accused of being part of a sophisticated ring that manipulated the company’s stock when it traded on the OTCQB from 2014 to 2015. The Reg CF offering by The Grilled Cheese Truck was listed on FlashFunders, owned by Boustead Securities of Irvine, Calif.
Self-help book publishing guru Chicken Soup for the Soul has turned itself into a video entertainment company and plans to expand through a Regulation A offering with plans to list on Nasdaq’s Global Market.
