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IPO: What you Can and Can't Say: Other Material Which May Be Included




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IPO: What you Can and Can't Say: Other Material Which May Be Included

The 1933 Act also sets forth other information which can be included and the parameters of the release. The price of the security, or if the price is not known, the method of its determination or the probable price range as specified by the issuer or the managing underwriter. In the case of a debt security with a fixed (non-contingent) interest provision, the yield or, if the yield is not known, the probable yield range, as specified by the issuer or the managing underwriter. The name and address of the sender of the communication and the fact that he is participating or expects to participate, in the distribution of the security. The names of the managing underwriters. The appropriate date upon which it is anticipated the proposed sale to the public will commence. Whether, in the opinion of counsel, the security is a legal investment for savings banks, fiduciaries, insurance companies, or similar investors under the laws of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia. Whether, in the opinion of counsel, the security is exempt from specified taxes, or the extent to which the issuer has agreed to pay any tax with respect to the security or measured by the income therefrom. Whether the security is being offered through rights issued to security holders, and, if so, the class of securities the holders of which will be entitled to subscribe, the subscription ratio, the actual or proposed record date, the date upon which the rights were issued or are expected to be issued, the actual or anticipated date upon which they will expire, and the approximate subscription price, or any of the foregoing.

The communication must also include any statement or legend required by any state law or administrative authority.

A communication concerning the securities of a registered investment company may also include any one or more of the following items of information: Offers, descriptions and explanations of any products and services not constituting securities subject to registration under the Securities Act of 1933, and descriptions of corporations provided that such offers, descriptions and explanations do not relate directly to the desirability of owning or purchasing a security issued by a registered investment company and that all direct references in such communications to a security issued by a registered investment company contain only the statements required or permitted to be included therein by the other provisions of this rule, and that all such direct references be placed in a separate and enclosed area in the communication.

With respect to any class of debt securities, any class of convertible debt securities or any class of preferred stock, the security rating or ratings assigned to the class of securities by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization and the name or names of the nationally recognized statistical rating organization(s) which assigned such rating(s), and with respect to any class of debt securities, any class of convertible debt securities or any class of preferred stock registered on Form F-9, the security rating or ratings assigned to the class of securities by any other rating organization specified in the Instruction to paragraph (a)(2) of General Instruction I of Form F-9 and the name or names of the rating organization or organizations which assigned such rating(s).

Except as provided in other sections of the 1933 Act, every communication used pursuant to rule 134 shall contain the following:

If the registration statement has not yet become effective, the following statement:

A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This (communication) shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any State in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such State.

A statement whether the security is being offered in connection with a distribution by the issuer or by a security holder, or both, and whether the issue represents new financing or refunding or both; and

The name and address of a person or persons from whom a written prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Act may be obtained.

Any of the statements or information specified in Section 10 of rule 134 may, but need not, be contained in a communication, which does no more than state from whom a written prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the Act may be obtained, identify the security, state the price thereof and state by whom orders will be executed; or which is accompanied or preceded by a prospectus or a summary prospectus which meet the requirements of Section 10 of the Act at the date of such preliminary communication.

A communication sent or delivered to any person pursuant to rule 134 which is accompanied or preceded by a prospectus which meets the requirements of Section 10 of the Act at the date of such communication, may solicit from the recipient of the communication an offer to buy the security or request the recipient to indicate, upon an enclosed or attached coupon or card, or in some other manner, whether he might be interested in the security, if the communication contains substantially the following statement:

No offer to buy the securities can be accepted and no part of the purchase price can be received until the registration statement has become effective, and any such offer may be withdrawn or revoked, without obligation or commitment of any kind, at any time prior to notice of its acceptance given after the effective date. An indication of interest in response to this advertisement will involve no obligation or commitment of any kind.

The preceding statement need not be included in such a communication to a dealer if the communication refers to a prior communication to the dealer, with respect to the same security, in which the statement was included.

 

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