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Exempt Transactions Outline

Updated Exempt Transactions Notes

Securities Regulation Outlines

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Exempt Transactions

  1. In General

    1. § 4 provides for Transaction Exemptions (except § 3(a)(11) is actually a transaction exemption)

      1. Transaction exemptions provide an exemption only from the registration provisions of § 5 of the '33 Act.

      2. Securities placed under one of these exemptions remain subject to both the '33 Act and the '34 Act AND cannot be resold unless either they are registered pr another exemption applies to the resale.

    2. § 3 provides for Exempt Securities (except § 3(a)(11) of which is a transaction exemption)

      1. Exempt securities need not be registered.

      2. Exempt securities can be resold free of registration burdens.

      3. Exempt securities nonetheless remain subject (to varying degrees) to the anti-fraud provisions of the '33 Act and the '34 Act

  2. § 4(1)

    1. § 4(1) exempts transaction by everyone except transactions by an "an issuer, underwriter, or dealer."

      1. See "The Underwriter Concept" below.

  3. Intrastate Offerings

    1. § 3(a)(11) of the '33 Act exempts:

      1. Any security which is part of an issue offered and sold only to persons resident within a single State or Territory, where the issuer of such security is a person resident and doing business within, or, if a corporation, incorporated by and doing business within, such State or Territory.

    2. Scope of the Exemption

      1. "A basic condition of the exemption is that the entire issue of securities be offered and sold exclusively to the residents of the state in question." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 255)

        • "[A]n offer to a nonresident which is considered a part of the intrastate issue will render the exemption unavailable to the entire offering." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 255)

      1. "Whether an offering is 'part of an issue' . . . is a question of fact and depends essentially upon whether the offerings are a related part of a plan or program. . . ." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 255)

        • "Thus, the exemption should not be relied upon in combination with another exemption for the different parts of a single issue where a part is offered or sold to nonresidents." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pp. 255-56)

      2. "[T]he phrase 'sold only to persons resident cannot refer merely to the initial sales by the issuing corporation to its underwriters, or even the subsequent resales by the underwriters to distributing dealers." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 256)

        • "[I]t is necessary that the entire issue of securities shall be offered and sold to, and come to rest in the hands of residents within the state." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 256)

        • "If any part of the issue is offered or sold to a nonresident, the exemption is unavailable not only for the securities so sold, but for all the securities forming a part of the issue, including those sold to residents. . . ." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 256)

      3. "[T]he requirement that the issuer be doing business in the State can only be satisfied by the performance of substantial operational activities in the State of incorporation." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 256); see also Chapman v. Dunn ("[T]he issuer must offer and sell his securities only to persons resident within a single State and the issuer must be a resident of the same State. In addition to this, the issuer must conduct a predominant amount of his business within the same State. . . .")

        • "The doing business requirement is not met by functions in the particular State such as bookkeeping, stock record and similar activities or by offering securities in the State. . . ." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 256)

        • "If the proceeds of the offering are to be used primarily for the purpose of a new business conducted outside the State of incorporation and unrelated to some incidental business locally conducted, the exemption should not be relied upon. . . ." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 256); see also SEC v. McDonald Investment (concluding that the exemption was not available where the issuer sells to Minnesota residents and the proceeds will be used to make loans to land developers outside Minnesota)

          • "The issue is . . . whether subsequent proceeds are to be employed in that same state. . . ." Busch v. Carpenter (pg. 258)

        • "So also, [the] exemption should not be relied upon for each of a series of corporations organized in different States where there is in fact and purpose a single business enterprise or financial venture whether or not it is planned to merge or consolidate the various corporations at a later date. . . ." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 256)

      4. The exemption "requires that the entire issue be confined to a single State in which the issuer, the offerees and the purchasers are residents." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 256)

        • "The mere presence in the State is not sufficient to constitute residence as in the case of military personnel at a military post. . . ." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 256)

      5. "A secondary offering by a controlling person in the issuer's State of incorporation may be made in reliance on [the exemption] provided the exemption would be available to the issuer for a primary offering in the State." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 256)

        • "It is not essential that the controlling person be a resident of the issuer's State of incorporation." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 256)

      6. "[I]f during the course of distribution any underwriter, any distributing dealer . . . , or any dealer or other person purchasing securities from a distributing dealer for resale were to offer or sell such securities to a nonresident, the exemption would be defeated." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 257)

        • "[T]he exemption is applicable only if the entire issue is distributed pursuant to the statutory conditions." Securities Act Release No. 4434 (pg. 257)

        • "This is not to suggest, however, that securities which have actually come to rest in the hands of resident investors . . . may not in due course be resold by such persons, whether directly or...

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