Posts from February 2017.

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The Snap founders’ overwhelming and much talked-about control of the company appears to be a reaction to onerous venture capital investment terms that they did not understand and diluted their power and were simply called “standard” by their lawyers.

Rights offerings have evolved into a transformative corporate transaction providing an opportunity to raise capital from existing shareholders first, then from the general public, via a streamlined registration on Form S-1 or shelf takedown with a built-in best efforts standby underwriting for outside investors.

Domino’s “Piece of the Pie Rewards” program is turning customers into shareholders.

At least half a dozen U.S. coal firms are preparing or exploring public offerings, according to The Wall Street Journal, kicking off the biggest wave of coal IPOs in two decades.

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