SEC Provides Greater Flexibility to Issue Equity to Employees, Seeks to Modernize Compensatory Securities Offerings

1 August 2018
View Debevoise Update

Key takeaways:

  • SEC doubles threshold (to $10 million) for additional disclosure requirements applicable to compensation-related securities offerings made by non-reporting companies.
  • SEC also seeks comments on possible ways to modernize both the private company exemption and the public company registration requirements for compensation-related offers of securities.