Market Update - October 26th, 2015

At today's Practising Law Institute conference on Private Placements and Hybrid Securities Offerings program, a representative of the SEC Staff shared some statistics on Rule 506 offerings.  Since the September 2013 effective date of the amended Rule 506 rules, based solely on Form D filings there have been approximately 40,000 Rule 506(b) offerings, raising approximately $1.3 trillion in offering proceeds.  During the same period, there have been approximately 3,300 Rule 506(c) deals raising approximately $42 billion in offering proceeds.  There have been roughly 13 times more offerings made pursuant to Rule 506(b) versus Rule 506(c) and over 30 times more dollars raised in Rule 506(b) offerings than Rule 506(c) offerings.  Of course, given that issuers often neglect to file Form Ds, this information may be incomplete.