Over the last three years, securities regulators in the United States and Canada have proposed major reforms to securities law requirements to facilitate “equity crowdfunding”, or the sale of securities by issuers to large numbers of investors through online portal intermediaries.
With final rules for equity crowdfunding expected to be in place in 2015, widespread equity crowdfunding may soon become a reality in the United States and Canada. However, even in the absence of these rules, more limited forms of equity crowdfunding are already occurring here and in the United States.
Click the link to access our nutshell summarizing these developments. >> AUM Law Nutshell Equity Crowdfunding Portals