Comments on Proposed Rule: Facilitating Capital Formation and Expanding Investment Opportunities by Improving Access to Capital in Private Markets

[Release Nos. 33-10763, 34-88321; File No. S7-05-20]

Submitted Comments

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Comments have been received from individuals and entities using the following Letter Type
A: 286
Oct. 30, 2020 Andrew Vollmer and Brian Knight, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Oct. 21, 2020 Lisa Hopkins, NASAA President and West Virginia Senior Deputy Securities Commissioner
Sep. 25, 2020 Ken Linge, Executive Director, National Coalition for Community Capital
Sep. 1, 2020 Association of Online Investment Platforms
Aug. 25, 2020 Mark Jones, CEO, Sprowtt Inc.
Aug. 22, 2020 Kendrick Nguyen
Aug. 21, 2020 Andrew Vollmer, Mercatus Center, George Mason University
Aug. 3, 2020 Rutheford B. Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Law, Rosenberg College of Law, University of Kentucky
Jul. 30, 2020 Umair Shams
Jul. 27, 2020 Robert E. Buckholz, Chair, Federal Regulation of Securities Committee, ABA Business Law Section; Joshua Geffen, Chair, Private Equity and Venture Capital Committe, ABA Business Law Section; R. Marshall Grodner, Chair, Commercial Finance Committee, ABA Business Law Section
Jul. 21, 2020 Carlo Passeri, Director of Capital Markets and Financial Services Policy, Biotechnology Innovation Organization
Jul. 19, 2020 Youngro Lee, CEO, NextSeed Securities
Jul. 13, 2020 Marshall Uzzle, Vezzit, Inc
Jul. 10, 2020 Maxine Waters, Chairwoman, Committee on Financial Services, U.S. Congress
Jul. 10, 2020 Anthony Chereso, President and CEO, Institute for Portfolio Alternatives
Jul. 1, 2020 Pat Toomey, U.S. Senator, Chairman, Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Jun. 30, 2020 Zachary O. Fallon, Principal, Ketsal and James M. Blakemore, Principal, Ketsal
Jun. 29, 2020 David F. Connor, MIM Americas General Counsel, Macquarie Investment Management
Jun. 25, 2020 Anthony Chereso, President & CEO, Institute for Portfolio Alternatives
Jun. 18, 2020 Shearman & Sterling LLP
Jun. 17, 2020 Christian Bilger, Chief Operating Officer, Honeycomb Credit Inc.
Jun. 16, 2020 James L. Markus
Jun. 12, 2020 James C. Allen, CFA, Head, Capital Markets Policy – Americas, CFA Institute and Stephen Deane, CFA, Sr. Director, Capital Markets Policy – Americas, CFA Institute
Jun. 11, 2020 Sara Hanks, CEO, CrowdCheck, Inc.
Jun. 11, 2020 Mitch Chapman
Jun. 8, 2020 Patrick McHenry, Representative, US House of Representatives
Jun. 8, 2020 Brian Belley, Founder and Managing Member, Crowdwise, LLC
Jun. 7, 2020 Matt L.
Jun. 5, 2020 Minnie Mark
Jun. 4, 2020 Robert Rutkowski
Jun. 4, 2020 Ryan M. Feit, CEO, SeedInvest
Jun. 4, 2020 Barbara Roper, Director of Investor Protection, Consumer Federation of America and Micah Hauptman, Financial Services Counsel, Consumer Federation of America
Jun. 4, 2020 Robert E. Rutkowski
Jun. 2, 2020 David Cornett
Jun. 2, 2020 Richard Megos
Jun. 2, 2020 Lev Bagramian, Senior Securities Policy Advisor, Better Markets, et al.
Jun. 1, 2020 Eshwar Inapuri, CEO, InnaMed, Inc., et al.
Jun. 1, 2020 Aron Szapiro, Head of Policy Research, Morningstar, Inc. and Jasmin Sethi, Associate Director of Policy Research, Morningstar, Inc.
Jun. 1, 2020 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Jun. 1, 2020 David R. Burton, Senior Fellow in Economic Policy, The Heritage Foundation
Jun. 1, 2020 Franz Hochstrasser, Chief Executive Officer, Raise Green Inc., Managing Member, New Haven Community Solar, LLC and Matthew Moroney, Chief Operating Officer, Raise Green Inc., Managing Member, New Haven Community Solar, LLC
Jun. 1, 2020 Josh Levit, Chief Compliance Officer, Private Markets, Americas, Invesco Ltd. and Christopher Fischer, Assistant General Counsel, Invesco Ltd.
Jun. 1, 2020 Marshall E. Uzzle, CEO, Vezzit Inc. and Ron Matana, CPO, Vezzit Inc.
Jun. 1, 2020 Bret Hester, Senior Managing Director and General Counsel, TIAA
Jun. 1, 2020 Dan Berglund, President and CEO, SSTI
Jun. 1, 2020 Gail C. Bernstein, General Counsel, Investment Adviser Association
Jun. 1, 2020 Engine Advocacy
Jun. 1, 2020 Mark Schonberger
Jun. 1, 2020 Christina Mitsopoulos, Securities Regulation Advisor, Shareholder Advocacy Forum
Jun. 1, 2020 William Hubbard, Hubbard Business Counsel
Jun. 1, 2020 Jonathan J. Grossman
Jun. 1, 2020 Amy Davine Kim, Chief Policy Officer, Chamber of Digital Commerce
Jun. 1, 2020 Leila Shaver, Esq. Owner, Shaver Law Group, LLC, d/b/a My RIA Lawyer
Jun. 1, 2020 Michael H. Shuman, Esq.
Jun. 1, 2020 Aseel M. Rabie, Managing Director and Associate General Counsel, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association
Jun. 1, 2020 Zachary O Fallon, CEO and Founder, So. Capital Inc.
Jun. 1, 2020 Youngro Lee, CEO, NextSeed Securities LLC and Vivian Kim, Counsel, NextSeed Securities LLC
Jun. 1, 2020 Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund
Jun. 1, 2020 Maxwell R. Rich, Deputy General Counsel, Republic
Jun. 1, 2020 Penny Somer-Greif, Chair and Gregory T. Lawrence, Vice-Chair, Committee on Securities Law of the Business Law Section of the Maryland State Bar Association
Jun. 1, 2020 Henry Ward, CEO, eShares, Inc. d/b/a Carta, Inc. and Anthony Cimino, Head of Policy, eShares, Inc. d/b/a Carta, Inc.
Jun. 1, 2020 Christopher Gerold, NASAA President, Chief, New Jersey Bureau of Securities, North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc.
Jun. 1, 2020 Eric T. Holzer, CPC, Healthcare Division, Managing Search Director, Richard, Wayne and Roberts
Jun. 1, 2020 Jon F. Stoner
May 31, 2020 Mark Roderick
May 31, 2020 Jason Frishman, Chief Executive Officer, Netcapital Funding Portal Inc.
May 31, 2020 Robert C. Guinto Jr., President, Social Enterprise Investments, Inc.
May 31, 2020 Luc W. Van Braekel
May 31, 2020 David V. Duccini, Founder and CEO, Silicon Prairie Holdings, Inc.
May 31, 2020 Daniel Farb
May 31, 2020 Mark Roderick
May 31, 2020 Jason
May. 31, 2020 John A. Carter
May 30, 2020 Bob
May 30, 2020 John R. Clarke, Industry Professional
May 30, 2020 Pin Osuji ,CEO, PP And VI Cleaning Restoration LLC, Chief Strategist At The Investing Mind and Soul Cleaning Restoration Club
May 30, 2020 Robert Hill
May 30, 2020 Bernie Cohen
May 29, 2020 Mike Yanak
May 29, 2020 Chidi Onwuka
May. 29, 2020 Frank Collazo
May 29, 2020 Alain Suria
May 29, 2020 Guoming Xu
May 29, 2020 Charles Patton
May 29, 2020 Arthur Popkave
May 29, 2020 Sherwood Neiss, Principal, Crowdfund Capital Advisors, LLC and Jason Best, Principal, Crowdfund Capital Advisors, LLC
May 29, 2020 Michael J. Friedman, Head of Trading, LEX Markets
May 29, 2020 Kevin Kim, Corporate and Securities Partner, Geraci LLP
May 29, 2020 Carolynn Levy, Partner General Counsel, Y Combinator
May 29, 2020 Aaron Koral
May 28, 2020 Carla Garrett, Committee Chair, Advisory Committee and Jeffrey Solomon, Committee Vice Chair, Advisory Committee
May 28, 2020 Nicholas Tommarello, CEO, Wefunder
May 28, 2020 Jeff Mahoney, General Counsel, Council of Institutional Investors
May 26, 2020 Kathleen Minogue, Founder and CEO, Crowdfund Better
May 26, 2020 Andy Green, Managing Director of Economic Policy, Center for American Progress, et al
May 26, 2020 Patrick Gouhin, CEO, Angel Capital Association and Linda Smith, Chair Emeritus And Public Policy Chair, Angel Capital Association
May 26, 2020 Shane Hadden, CFA, Founder and CEO, Seats Capital LLC
May 25, 2020 Mark A. Cooper, CTO, Haute Fabrication
May 22, 2020 Jason D. Pampena, Individual investor
May 22, 2020 Jenny Kassan, Esq. Director, Crowdfunding Professional Association
May 22, 2020 Chris Barnard
May 21, 2020 Andrew A Schwartz, Professor of Law, University of Colorado
May 14, 2020 Darshun N. Kendrick, Georgia General Assembly/KAAG
May 10, 2020 William S. Li, Chairman and CEO, Knightscope, Inc.
May 8, 2020 Jin Gao
May 7, 2020 Nicholas Matthews, Co-Founder and CEO, MainVest, Inc. and Benjamin Blieden, CFA, Co-Founder and CFO, MainVest, Inc.
May 6, 2020 Stephen E. Roth, Esq.and Frederick R. Bellamy, Eversheds Sutherland on behalf of the Committee of Annuity Insurers
May 3, 2020 Howard Marks
May 1, 2020 Brandon Andrews
May 1, 2020 Jeffrey M. Vinokur, Ph.D., CEO, Generation Genius, Inc.
Apr. 25, 2020 Fred Pea, Manager, VAS Portal, LLC
Apr. 24, 2020 Thomas Cilento
Apr. 20, 2020 Bill Ferguson, President, National Chauffeur Network
Apr. 17, 2020 Jeffrey Marks, Alliance Legal Partners, Inc.
Apr. 1, 2020 James Sun
Apr. 1, 2020 Richard McDermott
Mar. 31, 2020 Guenadi Jilevski
Mar. 31, 2020 Bridget Richardson
Mar. 31, 2020 Raymond Palermo
Mar. 30, 2020 Aviz MacBook
Mar. 30, 2020 Yatin Patil
Mar. 30, 2020 Steven Hicks
Mar. 30, 2020 Ricardo Harari
Mar. 30, 2020 W. Kim Colich
Mar. 30, 2020 Peter Farmer
Mar. 30, 2020 Dixon
Mar. 30, 2020 Barry Knopf
Mar. 30, 2020 Charles Raper
Mar. 30, 2020 Ruth Vassaw
Mar. 30, 2020 Joe Campbell
Mar. 30, 2020 Barbara Baughman
Mar. 30, 2020 Rik Moore
Mar. 29, 2020 Karen Melton
Mar. 29, 2020 Charles Cronin
Mar. 29, 2020 C. G.
Mar. 29, 2020 Brent Boyer
Mar. 29, 2020 William Atamanchuk
Mar. 29, 2020 Jerry Roland
Mar. 29, 2020 George Kissi
Mar. 29, 2020 Raymond Hooks III
Mar. 29, 2020 Counsil Griffin
Mar. 29, 2020 William Rueth
Mar. 29, 2020 Donald Liberty
Mar. 29, 2020 Warren Forman
Mar. 29, 2020 CD Lee
Mar. 29, 2020 Richard Bjelland
Mar. 29, 2020 Eileen J. Domingo
Mar. 29, 2020 Joel Berger
Mar. 29, 2020 Barry Mohr
Mar. 29, 2020 Paul Straub
Mar. 29, 2020 Joe Daniluk
Mar. 29, 2020 Daniel Farb
Mar. 29, 2020 Raymond Hooks
Mar. 29, 2020 Scott Bradley
Mar. 28, 2020 Greg Johnson
Mar. 28, 2020 Jennifer Lapoint
Mar. 28, 2020 David Stewart
Mar. 28, 2020 John Carter
Mar. 27, 2020 Jason, One Door Studios
Mar. 27, 2020 Stuart Halperin
Mar. 27, 2020 Albert Koenigsberg
Mar. 27, 2020 Anonymous
Mar. 27, 2020 Jim Tulin
Mar. 27, 2020 Kevin Wolf
Mar. 23, 2020 Isaiah Dalu
Mar. 22, 2020 Miguel P Costa
Mar. 18, 2020 Joe Spivack
Mar. 16, 2020 Tyler Gellasch, Executive Director, Healthy Markets Association
Mar. 14, 2020 Miguel Costa
Mar. 10, 2020 Michael Seng, CPA
Mar. 10, 2020 Miguel Costa
Mar. 10, 2020 Bruce D Wertz, Sr.
Mar. 8, 2020 Aaron Koral
Mar. 6, 2020 T.W. Kennedy, Founder, Regulated Funding Portal Industry Association
Mar. 5, 2020 Alan Donenfeld, Founder and CEO, CityVest

SEC Staff Studies and Reports

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Mar. 20, 2020 Overview Chart of Proposed Changes to the Capital-Raising Exemptions from the Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation

Meetings with SEC Officials

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Oct. 28, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Hester M. Peirce regarding an October 28, 2020 meeting with Andrew Vollmer, Mercatus Center, George Mason University
Oct. 8, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Chairman Clayton regarding an October 8, 2020, telephone conference with representatives of the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc.
Aug. 6, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Elad L. Roisman regarding an August 6, 2020, discussion with representatives of the Angel Capital Association
Jul. 14, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Hester M. Peirce regarding a June 25, 2020, discussion with representatives of the CFA Institute
Jul. 8, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Chairman Clayton regarding a July 8, 2020, telephone conference with representatives of the CFA Institute
Jul. 6, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Elad L. Roisman regarding a June 30, 2020, discussion with representatives of the CFA Institute
Jun. 30, 2020 Memorandum from the Division of Corporation Finance regarding a June 30, 2020, telephone conference with representatives of the CFA Institute
Mar. 30, 2020 Memorandum from the Office of Chairman Clayton regarding a March 26, 2020, meeting with representatives of Managed Funds Association