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Business Blog Featuring Cascade Partners: Liquidity Events Dialogue - Part 2
By Molly Z. Brown on March 24, 2022
In our last dialogue, we discussed options for liquidity events. For this edition, we move towards planning for liquidity events and implementing strategies for ensuring marketability....
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Business Blog Featuring Cascade Partners: Liquidity Events Dialogue - Part 1
By Molly Z. Brown & Arjun Murthy, Cascade Partners on January 12, 2022
In this Business Blog mini-series, we will explore liquidity event options outside of an outright sale of the company. Over the last several years, legal changes have facilitated a robust growth in the private capital market as investors shifted more capital towards private companies causing private placement offerings for debt, equity, and hybrid securities to be more common. This trend has followed the enactment by the U.S. Congress of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act In 2012. The JOBS Act eased the shareholder requirement for registration as an SEC periodic reporter by increasing it from 500 to 2000 shareholders and implemented exemptions from registration for securities offerings to facilitate capital raising by small businesses....
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Business Blog: Securities Law Implications for M&A - Private Companies
By Molly Z. Brown on November 18, 2021
Capital markets for private companies continue to present diverse opportunities for financing growth or recapitalizations. Often times we see clients pursuing a liquidity event through a merger or acquisition transaction. When designing deal structures, it is important to keep in mind relevant securities law concepts....
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Business Blog: Ohio's Revised LLC Act Effective January 1, 2022 - Issues for Existing Companies
By Louis P. Alexander Jr. & Molly Z. Brown on October 6, 2021
The changes brought by the Revised LLC Act should command the attention of all LLC owners as the statute will govern LLCs in Ohio, both domestic and foreign. LLC owners should revisit their current operating agreement to ensure compliance with the new statute....
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Business Blog: Fraudulent Unemployment Claims - How Employers Should Respond
By Molly Z. Brown on February 4, 2021
Attorney Molly Brown discusses the recent rise in the number of fraudulent unemployment claims, and the steps that employers should take if they believe they have fallen victim to a fraudulent claim....