Capital For Keeps Limit Litigation Risk While Raising Capital [Paperback]

Russell Weigel has been practicing securities law since 1990. For more than ten of these years he was an attorney for the Securities & Exchange Commission. Since 2001, he has been in private practice counseling public and private capital raisers and defending the securities industry and corporate executives from SEC and FINRA enforcement matters.

Russell Weigel opens your eyes to the risks of raising capital but shows you a path to minimize these risks.

Whether private or public, companies raising capital the wrong way and not properly planning for unforeseen events can result in substantial loss. Capital for Keeps is designed to save the entrepreneur thousands of dollars in legal fees by educating them on their options and the standards of conduct expected of them to stay away from the courthouse.The book that helps protect you and your company from your investors.There are books on how to raise capital, how to crowdfund, how to find angel or venture capital, etc. This is a different kind of book. This book is about staying out of jail. It is about legal survival. It is about prudence. Capital for Keeps is about avoiding the errors that can force you give up the capital that you raised and more.

Entrepreneurs seek and raise capital every day. Many entrepreneurs blindly seek capital from others completely oblivious to the strict laws that apply to this activity. So many people are doing it incorrectlymaking general solicitations for investments and advertising investment opportunitiesthat many people assume that it is okay to seek capital in that manner. It is not okay. In fact, under both state and federal law, the failure to adhere to strict investment or securities offering registration requirements can give rise to both criminal and civil liability for those participating in the improper investment solicitation. Recently, in August 2013, I attended a micro-finance networking l��