In recent months, a variety of companies have considered "initial coin offerings" (ICOs) as a way to generate money for their businesses. Companies considering ICOs should be aware that, depending ...

Returns to Investor in Initial Coin Offerings,” write that initial returns starting in January 2017 were an impressive 179% but that over half of the 4,003 planned and executed ICOs they ...

The issue is whether an initial coin offering is an “investment contract” that would bring it under the definition of a security. The Supreme Court adopted a test in 1946 in SEC v.

As discussed in a post from last week, the SEC determined that Initial Coin Offerings can be securities. The finding stems from the SEC’s investigation into The DAO’s offering and sale of DAO ...

Some coin offerings are solid. If a startup launching an ICO has done its due diligence -- ensured what it is selling is not a security, sought legal opinions, and constructed a fair and ...

This article is for subscribers only. The first fraud prosecution involving initial coin offerings ended in a guilty plea when a New York man admitted lying to about 1,000 investors.

Before a company makes an initial public offering, it has to release a certain amount of information. It has to tell potential shareholders the current value of its assets, what it does, how much ...

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) emerged in 2017 as a new means to raise funds, taking in over $5 billion. 25% met their funding goals with an average raise over $15mm. So with all this capital ...