The SEC has published a white paper describing the types of Regulation A+ offerings to date. Facts published include:
- As of October 31, 2016, prospective issuers have publicly filed offering statements for 147 Regulation A+ offerings, seeking up to approximately $2.6 billion in financing. Of those, approximately 81 offerings seeking up to approximately $1.5 billion have been qualified by the Commission.
- Tier 2 offerings were on the margin more common among qualified offerings, accounting for 60% of qualified offerings.
- The offer amount varied with issuer size, with the average issuer was seeking up to approximately $18 million.
- The majority of offerings were conducted on a best-efforts, self-underwritten basis, consistent with the small offering size and the small size of a typical issuer.
- Approximately 54% of all offerings and 65% of qualified offerings involved offerings on a delayed or continuous basis.
- The majority (around 80%) of offerings did not involve testing-the-waters. However, Tier 2 offerings accounted for the majority of testing-the-waters solicitations.
- Approximately 10% of all offerings involved sales by existing (affiliated or unaffiliated) securityholders.
- Across qualified offerings, the median time from initial public filing to qualification was 78 days.
- The median legal cost was reported to be approximately $40,000 ($50,000) based on all filings (qualified offerings).
- The typical issuer had median assets of approximately $0.1 million across all filings and approximately $0.2 million across qualified filings.
- Based on all filings with available data, the median issuer had no cash, property, plants and equipment (PP&E), long-term debt, revenue, or net income.
- The finance, insurance, and real estate sector accounted for the largest number of offerings and total amount offered across issuers.