Private Placements and Red Flags to Look For

In today’s world of private placements and private equity offerings, it is of utmost importance to understand and evaluate what is being offered for sale. This means appropriate and meticulous due diligence on the offering is critical before making a purchase, or, for that matter, before offering the investment to the public. This webinar will help teach accredited investors as well as financial intermediaries what to look for when reading an offering memorandum. It is important to question anything and everything that seems unusual or doesn’t pass the smell test and not ignore these red flags. Ensuring the necessary due diligence before investing could mean the difference between making money and losing everything. This webinar will assist participants in mitigating some of the risk when investing in private offerings.

Why Should You Attend:

This webinar will guide attendees on how best to weed out fraudulent or just plain bad deals. This course will help individual accredited investors as well as financial firm compliance departments and due diligence departments learn how to identify and investigate red flags when reading through the offering documents. Additionally, this webinar will:
Provide information on how to formulate a due diligence checklist that can easily be adapted to any type of offering.
Discuss some of the Financial Institution Regulatory Authority (FINRA) best practices for reasonable due diligence.
Discuss the instructor’s experiences as an expert witness in arbitrations and trials.
Detail the importance of who wrote the private placement memorandum and who reviewed or prepared the financials.
Addressing the continued growth of the cross-border private placement market, the webinar instructor will discuss:
The global private placement market and recent trends
Market participants
Documentation requirements
Traditional covenants and model forms
Marketing process
Ratings and the NAIC
Secondary transfers

Note: Use coupon code 232082 and get 10% off on registration.