Busch and his partner, Jim Greenfield, recommend what's known as a reverse merger, in which a smaller company winds up being part of a
larger public shell that will eventually carry out a public stock offering.
Initial public offerings, reverse mergers
into public shells and follow - on offerings (S - 1, SB - 1, SB - 2, S - 3, Form 10, etc.).
«We transferred 51 % of our stock to
a public shell in return for a $ 3 - million note,» says Robert Volpe, an executive vice-president.
A consultant explains the benefits of
a public shell and an executive officer explains how he used this strategy.
Twenty years ago, Pinetree Capital was
a public shell for venture investments in early - stage tech companies, but for the past decade it's been focused on resources.
A public shell is Wall Street's jargon for a corporate entity that is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission though it conducts no business operations.
A merger with
a public shell permits a group of entrepreneurs with few financing options of their own to band together with a common goal: eventually to gain liquidity by selling stock.
«After we acquire enough companies and build up three years of audited financial statements from them,» Busch explains, «
the public shell will sell stock, and we'll use the proceeds to pay off the original owners.»
Then one of Cline's board members — a venture capitalist who also ran a SPAC — told him about CEA Acquisition,
a public shell company based in Tampa that was trading on the OTC Bulletin Board.
Sometime in or about October 2012, Shkreli decided to take Retrophin public through a reverse merger with
a public shell.
In a new 8 - K filing, Root9B disclosed that it has received a Staff Determination from the Nasdaq that it has been determined no longer be an operating business and is currently a «
public shell.»
o explore ways to monetize the Company as
a public shell, including, if possible, through utilization of the Company's substantial NOLs.
Explore ways to monetize VaxGen's value as a «
public shell,» including the utilization of the Company's substantial net operating losses; and
Exploring ways to monetize the Issuer as a «
public shell,» including the utilization of the Issuer's Substantial Net Operating Losses; and
Exploring ways to monetize [VXGN] as a «
public shell,» including the utilization of [VXGN]'s Substantial Net Operating Losses; and
Bubble Space (Partially Buried) is a sculpture of
our public shell.