Growth Capitalist (https://growthcapitalist.com/category/premium-articles/markets/page/17/)
Macro-market developments affecting capital formation by pre-IPO private and public emerging growth companies
For much of 2014, growth equity private placement (EPP) activity had settled into a promising deal-making groove that was on pace to best 2013. But a spike in volatility in the fourth quarter slowed deal making and ushered in a ho-hum year-end performance.
A company that focuses on micro-lending for independent builders in real estate is now the first Reg A issuer to complete the coordinated process for state-level review developed by the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA).
Two recent reports on the year-old market for solicited equity private placements under the Rule 506(c) exemption of Reg D mandated by the JOBS Act show the nascent market already makes up a substantial portion of the overall $1 trillion Reg D market, and is growing steadily if not meteorically.
Two years after a bipartisan JOBS Act was passed by Congress the Securities and Exchange Commission has yet to finalize critical rulemaking to help emerging growth companies with capital formation.
