Rule 418
 Supplemental Information
a.
The Commission or its
staff may, where it is deemed appropriate, request supplemental information
concerning the registrant, the registration statement, the distribution
of the securities, market activities and underwriters' activities. Such
information includes, but is not limited to, the following items which
the registrant should be prepared to furnish promptly upon request:
1.
i. Any
reports or memoranda which have been prepared for external use by the
registrant or a principal underwriter, as defined in
Rule
405 in connection with the proposed offering;
ii. A
statement as to the actual or proposed use and distribution of the reports
or memoranda specified in paragraph (a)(1)(i) of this section, identifying
each class of persons who have received or will receive such reports or
memoranda and the number of copies distributed to each such class;
2. In
the case of a registration statement relating to a business combination
as defined in
Rule
145(a), exchange offer, tender offer or similar transaction, any feasibility
studies, management analyses, fairness opinions or similar reports prepared
by or for any of the parties to the subject transaction in connection
with such transaction;
3. Except in the case of a registrant eligible to use Form S-3
(§239.13 of this chapter), any engineering, management or similar reports or
memoranda relating to broad aspects of the business, operations or products of
the registrant, which have been prepared within the past twelve months for or by
the registrant and any affiliate of the registrant or any principal underwriter,
as defined in Rule 405 (§230.405), of the securities being registered except
for:
i.
Reports solely comprised of recommendations to buy, sell or hold the securities
of the registrant, unless such recommendations have changed within the
past six months; and
ii.
Any information contained in documents already filed with the Commission.
4.
Where there is a registration of an at-the-market-offering,
as defined in
Rule
100 of Regulation M, of more than 10 percent of the securities outstanding,
where the offering includes securities owned by officers, directors or
affiliates of the registrant and where there is no underwriting agreement,
information (i) concerning contractual arrangements between selling security
holders of a limited group or of several groups of related shareholders
to comply with the anti-manipulation rules until the offering by all members
of the group is completed and to inform the exchange, brokers and selling
security holders when the distribution by the members of the group is
over; or (ii) concerning the registrant's efforts to notify members of
a large group of unrelated sellers of the applicable Commission rules
and regulations;
5.
Where the registrant recently has introduced a new product or has begun
to do business in a new industry segment or has made public its intentions
to introduce a new product or to do business in a new industry segment,
and this action requires the investment of a material amount of the assets
of the registrant or otherwise is material, copies of any studies prepared
for the registrant by outside persons or any internal studies, documents,
reports or memoranda the contents of which were material to the decision
to develop the product or to do business in the new segment including,
but not limited to, documents relating to financial requirements and engineering,
competitive, environmental and other considerations, but excluding technical
documents;
6.
Where reserve estimates are referred to in a document, a copy of the
full report of the engineer or other expert who estimated the reserves;
7.
With respect to the extent of the distribution of a
preliminary prospectus, information concerning, and,
i.
The date of the preliminary prospectus distributed;
ii.
The dates or approximate dates of distribution;
iii.
The number of prospective underwriters and dealers to whom the preliminary
prospectus was furnished;
iv.
The number of prospectuses so distributed;
v.
The number of prospectuses distributed to others, identifying them in
general terms; and
vi. The steps taken by such underwriters and dealers to comply with the provisions of
Rule 15c2-8
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
8. Any free writing prospectuses used in connection with the
offering.
b.
Supplemental information described in paragraph (a) of this section shall not be required to be filed with or deemed part of and included in the registration statement, unless otherwise required. The information shall be returned to the issuer upon request, provided that:
1.
Such request is made at the time such information is furnished to the
staff;
2.
The return of such information is consistent with the protection of investors;
3.
The return of such information is consistent with the provisions of the
Freedom of Information
Act; and
4.
The information was not filed in electronic format.
Regulatory History |
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SEC Release 33-6383: 47 FR 11439, Mar. 16, 1982
SEC Release 33-6977: 58 FR 14669, 14670, Mar. 18, 1993
SEC Release 33-7375: 62 FR 520, 543, Jan. 3, 1997
SEC Release 33-8501: 69 FR 67391, Nov. 17, 2004
SEC Release 33-8591:
70 FR 44721, Aug. 3, 2005 (Eff. Dec. 1, 2005)
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