Tag Archives: C&DI

SEC Staff Expands Non-GAAP Relief for Business Combinations

This week the SEC staff expanded relief for the disclosure of non-GAAP financial forecasts used in business combinations.

In these transactions, public companies routinely obtain fairness opinions from an investment bank regarding the value of the consideration to be paid to shareholders, and the fairness opinions normally rely on financial projections provided by the company.  These projections are often prepared in a way that varies from GAAP and,… More

SEC Staff Clarifies Registration Statement Relief for Omitting Financial Information

On August 17, 2017, the SEC staff issued two new C&DIs (Securities Act Forms 101.04 and 101.05) to clarify the financial information that emerging growth companies (EGCs) and other issuers can omit from confidentially submitted draft registration statements.  An issuer can omit interim financial information if it anticipates that the registration statement will not, at the time of the contemplated offering (or, in the case of non-EGCs,… More