Chapter 3: The Registration Process Under the Securities Act of 1933, Including the Integrated Disclosure System
§ 3.1  The Registration Requirement
§ 3.1.1  Definition of “Sale”
§ 3.1.2  Definition of “Offer”
§ 3.2  The Registration Process
§ 3.2.1  Classification of Issuers
§ 3.3  Registration Statement Forms
§ 3.3.1  The Forms
§ 3.3.2  Guidance for the Preparation of Registration Statements
§ 3.3.3  The Scaled Disclosure Requirements of Regulation S-K
§ 3.3.4  Electronic Filing—EDGAR
§ 3.4  The Prospectus
§ 3.4.1  The Statutory Prospectus
§ 3.4.2  Issuer Communications
§ 3.4.3  Other Forms of Communication
§ 3.4.4  Communications by Broker-Dealers
§ 3.4.5  Cases Regarding Communications
§ 3.4.6  Projections and Forward-Looking Information
§ 3.4.7  Free Writing Prospectuses
§ 3.5  Additional Registration Statement Concepts
§ 3.5.1  The Effective Date
§ 3.5.2  Adding Shares to a Registration Statement
§ 3.5.3  Updating the Information in the Prospectus
§ 3.5.4  Communications by Participants in the Distribution
§ 3.6  The “Presumptive Underwriter” Doctrine
§ 3.7  Regulation A
§ 3.8  Blank Check (Blind Pool) Offerings
§ 3.8.1  Introduction
§ 3.8.2  The Business Acquisition
§ 3.8.3  Abuses of the Reverse Merger
§ 3.8.4  Special Regulation of Blank Checks
§ 3.9  The Multi-Jurisdictional Disclosure System
§ 3.9.1 MJDS, Generally
§ 3.9.2 Southbound Transactions
§ 3.9.3 Northbound Transactions
§ 3.9.4 Blue Sky Issues
§ 3.10  Disclosure
Appendix: “A Prospectus for the Rest of Us” by Howard Darmstadter