Christopher J. Hubbert and Andrew J. Wilber | Apr 22, 2021 | Articles, Securities
An unlikely cryptocurrency is now worth almost 50 times what it was valued on January 1 of this year. According to the Dogecoin website, the digital currency is “favored by Shiba Inus worldwide.” Clearly, Dogecoin doesn’t take itself too seriously, so why does it have...
Christopher J. Hubbert | Sep 4, 2020 | Articles, Corporate & Securities
Private companies seeking to raise capital by selling equity to investors must structure the raise so that it is not considered a public offering under the Securities Act of 1933 unless they are prepared to undergo the cost and expense of an IPO. The most commonly...
Christopher J. Hubbert | Dec 5, 2017 | Articles, Corporate & Securities
Earlier this week, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new Cyber Unit filed charges in its very first cyber fraud case, and its target was PlexCoin, a cryptocurrency startup based on the app platform Ethereum, and the company’s founder, Dominic Lacroix....
Christopher J. Hubbert | Nov 10, 2017 | Articles, Client Alerts
Bitcoin has been in the news recently for its meteoric rise in value this year, achieving an all-time high of more than $7,500 even after China outlawed initial coin offerings, or ICOs, in September. An ICO is a crowdfunding tool in which a newly-issued cryptocurrency...
