Sentence examples for shareholder limit from inspiring English sources

But as the company grows, it risks exceeding the 499 shareholder limit.

The company said that it would cross the 499 shareholder limit by the end of the year in the offering memorandum sent to Goldman clients who are being given an opportunity to buy Facebook shares.

For further reading on changes to the 500 shareholder limit, see Michael D. Guttentag, "Patching a Hole in the JOBS Act: How and Why to Rewrite the Rules that Require Firms to Make Periodic Disclosures", Indiana Law Journal (forthcoming); Donald C. Langevoort & Robert Thompson, " 'Publicness' in Contemporary Securities Regulation after the JOBS Act," Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming).

Second, depending on Twitter's internal regulations regarding independent sales on secondary markets, the offering to BlackRock could keep employees from tipping Twitter over the 500 shareholder limit that triggers the need to file for an initial public offering.

In addition, the JOBS Act broadens the potential investor base for growing biotech companies by increasing the SEC private shareholder limit, giving them more investor options to finance their early-stage research.

Certain Regulation A+ companies, which meet shareholder limits or revenue and public float caps, will avoid the SEC's standard reporting regime – Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K and proxy statements, and such companies are also exempt from many onerous "public company" rules, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and more esoteric burdens such as rules relating to disclosure of the use of "conflict minerals".

How did the government come up with the 500-shareholder limit, a threshold that over the years has been called both too high and too low?

Like Google and Microsoft in their day, Facebook doesn't really want to be public, but pressure from employees wanting to cash out, and from regulators who are looking carefully at the 500-shareholder limit on unregistered stock will almost certainly force the issue.

CNBC said a the company would be obliged to go public in the first quarter of the year because it is likely to reach the 500-shareholder limit in October, and would then be required to release financial results to the US Securities and Exchange Commission every quarter.

As Fortune's Dan Primack reported, the SPV would've helped Goldman circumvent the 500-shareholder limit rules around private companies traded on secondary markets.

This could help companies delay their IPO by staying under the 500-shareholder limit, remove the need for auctions on SecondMarket or SharesPost, but get cash to veteran employees.