A legal blog on private funds, startups, and venture capital.
A legal blog on private funds, startups, and venture capital.
This article was originally posted on business.com on May 1, 2012. Investing in a new venture can be exciting. In addition to the potential to make a profit, many people invest in start-ups for the thrill of being involved with…
Last December, I wrote a series of posts about what was – and remains – a hot topic in patent law: patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101. The law on patentable subject matter often boils down to…
Previously, I reported that the Massachusetts Securities Division had proposed an exemption from investment adviser registration for advisers to private funds. In late winter, the division adopted these regulations as final (with small changes). They are, more or less, identical…
This post is the third in a series exploring when securities laws impact business transactions. In my previous posts, I provided a general overview of the definition of a “security” under federal securities laws. One of the categories of investments…
This post is the second in a series exploring when securities laws impact business transactions. In my previous post, I provided a general overview of the definition of a “security” under federal securities laws. The Securities Act of 1933 provides…
Business owners and attorneys without a securities background will often engage in transactions that, while on first blush do not involve securities regulation, but actually are a securities transaction, and thus subject to federal and state securities laws. For instance,…
