Legal
- 506B and 506C
- 95% of syndicators rely on exemption
- Provide safe harbor if they comply to the rules
- Pre-empt state law
Want to be just a capital raiser?
- New rules for Capital Raisers 2021
- No bad actors
- Can't handle investor funds
- Introduce to issuer
- Can't prep sales material. No marketing their marketing
- Can't provide your own analysis of their security
- Can't provide financing to provide for their security
- Not allowed to make opinion
- Required to give disclosure
- Tier 1
- Referring investors to single transaction single year etc
- Prohibited from talking to investor about issuer or deal
- Can only do it once in a 12 month period, not for building business
- Tier 2
- Id and screen and distribute to investors, coordinate meetings
- No independent analysis or if it's a good fit
- Must get written acknowledgement of disclosure from investment