SEC Approves NYSE Initial Listing Fee Relief
Morrison Foerster - September 2006
Recent Fee Relief Intensifies Competition Between NYSE and NASDAQ
Intensified competition between NYSE and NASDAQ for company listings could provide a unique cost-saving opportunity to companies that are considering a near-term listing on NYSE but do not initially meet NYSE’s listing qualifications.  The SEC recently approved [...]

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M. Ridgway Barker is Chair of the Corporate Finance & Securities Practice Group of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP. Randi-Jean G. Hedin is a Partner in the Corporate Finance & Securities Practice Group. Acknowledgement is given to Kristen A. Hartofilis , an Associate at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, for her efforts in the preparation [...]

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BusinessWeek Online
March 5, 2007
To get listed overseas, companies are getting U.S.-traded outfits to buy them.
Big-ticket IPOs in New York and Hong Kong for Chinese banks and insurance companies make headlines. But in recent years another class of Chinese company has been quietly tapping the international capital markets. Enterprises that don’t have the heft or profits [...]

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An Analysis of Trading Activity around Reverse Mergers
This is an excellent research report written by academics on the history of Shells with analysis of comparative costs and time frames to go public for IPO’s versus Reverse Mergers.
To read the report please go to:
http://www.fma.org/SLC/Papers/Shell_Companies_as_IPO_Alternatives.pdf
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The Denver Business Journal - July 28, 2006
by Renee McGaw
Denver Business Journal
Don’t suggest to Tim Keating, President of Keating Investments, that reverse mergers have a less-than-stellar reputation. He’s heard it all. He even used to keep a file of negative press clippings, until he got bored with it and stopped.
But in the past few [...]

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has suspended trading for 35 companies that allegedly benefited from spam e-mail campaigns to hype their stocks.
The SEC stated in a news release on March 8th that “This is the largest number of companies (35) ever suspended at one time for having their stock hyped by spam”. The [...]

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According to Tim Keating, President of Keating Investments, LLC, “The reverse merger industry has gone through a dramatic transformation over the last three years from infamy to legitimacy”.
So how did this ugly duckling transform itself into a swan? Over the past several years there have been several changes made by the Securities and Exchange [...]

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The US is at risk of losing its edge as the world’s financial markets leader because of continued growth in Europe and Asia according to President George W Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. With record profits, earnings and bonuses on Wall Street, it is hard to fathom that the party could be over. [...]

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On Tuesday, January 3, 2007, attorney David Feldman meet with Martin Dunn, Deputy Director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (Corp Fin) and David Lynn, Chief Counsel of Corp Fin. Subject to signoff from their boss John White, the Director of Corp Fin, these two, with the assistance of other staffers, have been formulating [...]

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The NYSE Group and Euronext hope to create the world’s largest financial exchange group by the end of March. Their shareholders voted last month to approve a plan to combine the two exchange operators.
The New York Stock Exchange, which plans to complete its merger with Euronext before the end of March, has proposed to [...]

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