David Hooper | Source | Chair of Securities and Capital Markets at Barnes & Thornburg
David Hooper
David Hooper provides experienced and practical advice to help clients grow and achieve success. Whether assisting public companies, financial institutions, closely held entities, fund sponsors, or individuals, David offers sophisticated guidance in a responsive and collaborative manner on securities, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and corporate law matters.
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Before the JOBS Act, if a smaller company was going public and made their filing available for everyone to see and the IPO was later pulled, that was a pretty negative connotation on the company itself, and the market typically looked at that as there must be something fatally wrong with this company.
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U.S. SEC Expands the "IPO On-Ramp" Provision of the JOBS Act
In an expansion of the JOBS act, the SEC is now permitting all companies to submit nonpublic draft registration statements relating to IPOs. Read more here.
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Barnes & Thornburg
Chair of Securities and Capital Markets