Mark Hiraide presents: "Crowdfunding & other financing techniques for startups."

Topic: “Crowdfunding and other financing techniques for startups”

Mark will provide a practical overview of the SEC’s new Equity Crowdfunding rules, which take effect on May 16, 2016, and answer questions about the new rules. May 16, 2016, will go down in securities law history as the day entrepreneurs first gained unprecedented access to capital to finance their business ventures and startups. On that day, for the first time since Congress began regulating investments under the Securities Act of 1933, companies will be able to raise capital from the public without registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). This expansion of the funding universe for cash-starved businesses is the heart and soul of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (“JOBS”) Act of 2012, designed to spur job creation through development of new businesses made possible by fundamental changes in the regulation of securities offerings.

Bio:

Mark is a securities attorney with Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP. He is a securities and corporate lawyer and counsels clients in corporate finance and mergers and acquisition transactions and in litigation relating to liabilities under federal and state securities laws. Mark participated in the JOBS Act legislation. He testified before the Securities Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee about Crowdfunding, Regulation A, Regulation D, SOX 404, IPOs and other securities law issues relating to the JOBS Act. He is the author of a crowdfunding bill that will be introduced later this year in the California legislature.

Prior to entering private practice, Mark was an attorney for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He was as an Attorney-Advisor with the SEC in the Division of Corporation Finance in Washington, D.C. and a Chief of one of the Enforcement Branches in the Los Angeles Regional Office. While at the Commission, he was appointed as a Special Assistant United States Attorney to prosecute a major criminal securities fraud case.

Mark just completed Crowdfunding: Practical Guide to the SEC’s Final Rules for Raising Capital, which will be published next month by Thomson Reuters. He also co-authors Representing Start-Up Companies (Thomson Reuters) (2015), a legal treatise for business lawyers.