The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:07:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png The SEC’s Registered Offering Reform Proposal: Expanding Access to Public Capital Markets – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 The SEC’s Registered Offering Reform Proposal: Expanding Access to Public Capital Markets https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/07/19/the-secs-registered-offering-reform-proposal-expanding-access-to-public-capital-markets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-secs-registered-offering-reform-proposal-expanding-access-to-public-capital-markets https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2026/07/19/the-secs-registered-offering-reform-proposal-expanding-access-to-public-capital-markets/#respond Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:30:24 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=182350?d=20260717160033EDT Posted by Adam Johnson and Drew Valentine, White & Case LLP, on Sunday, July 19, 2026
Editor's Note:

Adam Johnson and Drew Valentine are Partners at White & Case LLP. This post is based on their White & Case memorandum.

Over the coming months, the SEC’s proposal to overhaul the registered offering framework could be another important piece of the SEC’s agenda to simplify its public offering requirements and to encourage more companies to access the capital markets. The proposal, which was voted for unanimously by the SEC on May 19, 2026 (the “Proposal,” Release No. 33-11418, File No. S7-2026-17), could be the most significant overhaul of the registered offering framework in more than two decades and seeks to provide many public companies with a more efficient and cost-effective path to raise capital in the public markets than is currently available, and rests on the theory that an issuer’s timely and current SEC reporting is more important to ensuring that adequate disclosure is made than the issuer’s public float or length of reporting history.

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