Some interesting legal reads for the week of March 31, 2014:

• A speech from the SEC’s Director of Corporate Finance about recent developments, including the new general solicitation rules.  And here’s a blog post by Steve Quinliven summarizing and analyzing the speech.
• Another speech by Jeremy C. Stein, a Governor of the Federal Reserve, noting crowdfunding as potentially having a role in community development projects, not just tech startups, movies and the like.
• Though having said that, here’s an example of a movie funded by accredited investor-crowdfunding.

Some interesting legal reads for the week of March 3, 2014:

• DealBook on early examples of hedge funds advertising accredited investor-only offerings, under the new JOBS Act rules.
• MoFo’s Jumpstarter on the comment letter about the Regulation A+ rule proposal by the North American Securities Administrators Association, i.e., the state securities regulators group, who wants to protect its turf and avoid federal preemption of blue sky regulation.
• The WSJ has an update on the SEC’s progress in enacting the crowfunding rules.

Some interesting legal reads for the week of February 3, 2014:

• The SEC issued transitional guidance for Rule 506 offerings commenced before the effective date of the new rules permitting general solicitation.  Here is a summary from Securities News Watch.

• Jim Hamilton’s World of Securities Regulation recaps the House subcommittee hearings on the complexity of complying with the crowdfunding regulations as implemented.

• From the Words of Wisdom Blog by the L&W Capital Markets Group, this summary of the current state of finder regulations (broker-dealer).

• Orly Lobel presents an argument against using non-competes in the Wall Street Journal’s “The Accelerator” blog.

Starting now, I’m introducing a new (hopefully weekly) feature of this blog, where I provide a few links to some outside articles and blog posts that I found interesting.  Here goes:

• Announcements of acquisitions of public companies lead to near-automatic shareholder lawsuits.
• An account of (apparently) the first Regulation D offering using general solicitation under the new rules.
• The SEC issued a report mandated by the JOBS Act on disclosure requirements under Regulation S-K, which applies to public company filings under the Securities Act of 1933 and Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
• A useful reminder that Form Ds, the form filed to report private offerings conducted under Regulation D, are publicly available when filed with the SEC.