SEC Advisory Committee Meeting to Explore Small Business Investment Issues

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee released the agenda for its Thursday, February 10 virtual meeting, which will cover small business investment issues. The Committee, which provides advice and recommendations to the Commission on rules, regulations and policy matters relating to small businesses, will use the meeting to explore the impact of updates to the financial thresholds in the accredited investor definition, a topic included in the Commission’s recently released rulemaking agenda as a part of potential changes to the exempt offering rules. They will also examine how the accredited investor definition impacts capital raising opportunities for early-stage companies that raise capital in the exempt markets.