In the client alert we sent out yesterday, we noted that the new law applies to products sold on or after the effective date.

On July 24, 2017, the White House announced President Trump's intent to nominate Ann Marie Buerkle (R-NY) as the next Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)...

In a recent journal article, titled "Legal Institutions and IPO Puzzles," authors Ruoying Chen and Saul Levmore, address IPO underpricing.

Chairman Hensarling offered an amendment to a transportation and transportation bill, which includes a number of JOBS Act and other capital formation related bills that had received bipartisan support.

The MoFo Impact team recently published two articles in the Daily Journal on legal forms for social enterprises.

The Committee devoted the morning's session to a discussion of the decline in the number of U.S. IPOs.

Last week, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Group announced that it had raised $136 billion from 397 transactions, including IPOs and follow-on financings, in 2015.

In a year of significant volatility, it is not surprising that there was increased reliance on PIPE (private investment in public equity) transactions.

The SEC approved FINRA's Funding Portal rules for entities that intend to function as funding portals in crowdfunded offerings made pursuant to Regulation Crowdfunding.

On Wednesday, April 4, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") published new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations ("New C&DIs") on the use of non-GAAP financial measures.

In a recent speech, SEC Chair Mary Jo White addressed board diversity. Chair White cited some important statistics in her remarks.

The Securities and Exchange Committee announced the agenda for the March 8, 2018 meeting of its Investor Advisory Committee, which will include, among other things, a discussion of dual class share...

Because they can…. This was the conclusion of the discussion at the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies earlier in the week (see our prior post regarding the meeting).

While the JOBS Act helped spur larger, venture capital- and private equity-backed companies to consider IPOs, it has not served to revive the smaller IPO market.

Morrison & Foerster's new global study, titled "In the Face of Complexity and Change, the Time to Lead Is Now", reveals that General Counsel

In October 2013, Morrison & Foerster published the client alert "Interagency Fair Lending Guidance: A First Step, but in the Right Direction?".

Today, FINRA announced that its Board of Governors had approved publication of a Regulatory Notice seeking comment on rule amendments that would remove certain impediments to capital formation...

In November we reported that the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it was seeking public comments on the use of the term "natural" on food labeling.

The Small Business Runway Extension Act of 2018 is now law. As we discussed in a previous post, the Act changes the look-back period for calculating gross annual ...

Howard Morris, head of the Business Restructuring + Insolvency group at Morrison & Foerster in London, recently authored "A ‘palliative' approach to insolvency in the retail world?" for Global Restructuring Review.