The Car Charging Group, a Miami Beach, Fla., company that markets, installs and maintains electric vehicle charging stations across the country, recieved $840,545 from a $1 million private placement of stock. Full Story
Filing: 8-K
Capital pool company Rara Terra Capital Corp. completed its initial public offering of 3 million shares, raising C$300,000 ($281,854). Full Story
Source: Press Release
Petro Viking Energy, a capital pool company, has entered into a merger agreement with oil and gas exploration company Deep Creek Oil and Gas. Full Story
Source: Press Release
Amp Holdings Inc. said it raised about $2.04 million from 15 private placements from March to August.
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Filing: 8-K
SkyPeople Fruit Juice, a Chinese fruit juice concentrate maker that went public in a 2008 reverse merger, completed a $25.91 million stock offering underwritten by Rodman & Renshaw.
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Filing: Prospectus
McGovernWang LLC, a middle market investment banking firm, said it formed a partnership with Shenyin Wanguo Securities (H.K.) Ltd. Full Story
Nanotech Industries International, a San Francisco company that makes "green" polyurethane coatings for flooring, has gone public in a reverse merger with the shell company EPOD Solar Inc. Full Story
Filing: 8-K
Millennium Group controls all the shares in eight Form 10 shell companies that registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 30. Full Story
Former reverse merger company Ecology Coatings Inc. has received a term sheet for $2.4 million in financing, but it comes with strings. Full Story
Source: Press Release
Sunovia Energy Technologies, a company that went public in a reverse merger in 2007, raised $1.16 million in a private stock offering of about 58.13 million shares priced at 2 cents each. The company's stock was trading at 3.8 cents today.
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Filing: 8-K
It was 1:30 pm at the Global Hunter Securities China Conference in San Francisco in July and though some of the analysts were feeling a little full from lunch nobody was sleepy. That's because Winston Yen, the chief financial officer of Orient Paper Inc. was discussing his company and its future and everybody in the room was waiting for Yen to talk about upstart equity-research firm Muddy Waters Research calling Yen's company a fraud. Full Story
Legal experts believe that a rash of lawsuits against Chinese companies could sour the country's appetite for reverse mergers and cause those already listed here to retreat from the market. Others fear service providers, like accountancies and investor relations firms, could be the next targets of legal action. Full Story
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has served notice on U.S. audit firms doing work in China: Get ready for more attention and closer examinations. The increased interest in audits connected to companies going public through a reverse merger could slow deals down and alter the approach embraced by Chinese companies, as well as the U.S. firms advising them. The scrutiny could also convince U.S. audit firms to commit more resources to China or pull back from the country entirely. Full Story
PIPE Activity Healthy in Mining Deals
Capital pool company transactions in the mining sector secured some of the larger financings recently, but fundraisings in the pipeline could buck that trend. Full Story
- Huizenga Back in the Reverse Merger Game
- Russell Removal Could Aid China Stocks
- Beleaguered Lexington Promoter Sues SEC
- Brazilian Beef Producer Considers Merger
- Jinhao $30M PIPE Could be Fifth Largest
- Texas Baseball League Going Public
- Kramer Levin Scaling Up in China
- Paragon Capital Still Active in China
- Hirings and Firings


