Everything you need to know about Reverse Shell Mergers by Ralph Amato
Good News! The U.S. House of Representatives just passed H.R. 4173, “The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009″ (the Act). Section 7606 of the Act permanently exempts small public companies from the audit requirements of Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Small companies are those companies that are public but [...]
My prediction is that you will see reverse shell mergers outpace IPO’s for the next five years.
If you have read this entire 10 part series you should, by now, have a good idea of the possibilities of going public using a reverse merger into an OTCBB shell. Regardless of when you decide to go public [...]
There is now a rebirth of the new issue market and that market is using old public shells as the vehicle of choice for bringing companies’ public. What was once deemed to be the red headed step child of the public markets is now a handsome adult who is gaining respect, attention and momentum. Just [...]
As the IPO’s have disappeared the reverse merger market has started to gain momentum and flourish. The private investment in public equity (PIPE) market and the reverse merger business has emerged from the ruins of the Wall Streets meltdown in 2008. All of the failed issues and useless stocks that were traded on the OTCBB [...]
To attract a PIPE financing in today’s environment a company must demonstrate several attributes. The company must be revenue producing and profitable, have a business model that can demonstrate enormous growth and the company must be willing to take their financing at a low valuation. Today’s investors want to be assured there will be substantial [...]
Even Silicon Valley is showing signs of life. In the past companies located in that area could always find funding in their back yard but today that is not the case. Many Silicon Valley VC firms are tapped out from previous investments in early stage companies. Last year, venture capital firms around [...]
The reason there will be extended period of inaction in the IPO marketplace is because of the risk associated with underwriting an IPO. In the past institutional investors, hedge funds and money managers were the major purchasers of IPO’s. Matter of fact individual investors were shut out of the IPO marketplace because of [...]
Conclusion
Hopefully after having read my ten part series both Buyers and Sellers of OTCBB shells will understand that it is very important to have someone looking out for your interests before during and after the sale or purchase of a shell. Shells are costly so why take chances? As they say an ounce of prevention [...]
When purchasing an OTCBB shell there is more to consider than price alone. There are many individuals trying to sell shells to potential Buyers that are totally clueless about what they are selling.
In many instances the finder has no direct contact with the Seller of the shell. He has a list of potential [...]
This is a great post by David Feldman over at The Reverse Merger Blog:
That is the headline from today’s SEC Small Business Conference, which David Feldman, principal of the law firm of Feldman Weinstein & Smith LLP, attended in Washington along with about 75 others in person and many others listening in a webcast. In [...]
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