Month: October 2020
Raise5 on Air – How Fund Formation is Reacting to World Turmoil
On Wednesday, September 30, 1:00 – 2:00 pm PDT Cooley fund formation attorneys John Dado, Eric Doherty and Jimmy Matteucci hosted an interactive discussion at the RAISE5 Conference that touched on a variety of current fund formation topics, including the pace and structure of fund formation activity in 2020, the […]
CFIUS Reform UPDATE: Implications of FIRRMA for Fund Managers
UPDATE (October 8, 2020) We are providing updates on our original post here to reflect the issuance of a final rule by the U.S. Treasury Department which will become effective on October 15, 2020. Between November 2018 (when the first regulations implementing FIRRMA came into effect) and October 15, 2020 […]
SEC Proposes Registration Exemption for “Finders”
The SEC has proposed new rules that would clear up the longstanding difficulty a venture capital fund manager has faced when wanting to use a “finder” for investors in the fund and such “finder” is not licensed as (or associated with a licensed) broker-dealer. This article discusses the application of […]