Offering Memorandum Maine

Offering Memorandum Maine

An offering memorandum is often needed in order to raise capital from investors. Prospectus.com’s team has been involved in the creation and implementation of hundreds of offering memorandum and prospectus documents spanning over 50 jurisdictions worldwide and can ensure your offering memorandum is structured correctly.

An offering memorandum is the single most important document to hand investors, next to the business plan. Both the business plan and offering memorandum are two integral parts of the same coin. The business plan explains the model of the company and how it plans to make money, while the offering memorandum document details what the investors gets in return for his/her capita investment.

The OM, as it is also referred to, or the “offering memo”, is document that outlines the sale of the company’s securities. Such a document would include detailed information on the company’s securities being offered, the pricing of the securities, the market of the company, the management team and much more. The offering memorandum is an all-inclusive document that if warranted can be given as a single document to an investor who in turn can choose to invest based off the offering memorandum.

Maine Offering Memorandum

Equity: an equity offering memorandum is often used for companies who are selling shares, such as common stock or common shares, or for various funds such as hedge funds or mutual funds. An equity transaction is when a company normally sells an ownership type stake in a company. While this is the case for many public transactions via an IPO – where if you buy stock on the public market you are a part owner of the company – for funds this is not necessarily the case. Funds such as hedge funds may sell equity in the form of participating shares (even many classes of shares) but this does not necessarily grant ownership or even voting rights to the investor. For all private transactions relating to the sale of securities a document is necessarily to be given to an investor in order for him/her to make an educated decision about investing. While the prospectus is one such document and the private placement memorandum another, the offering memorandum is often given as well.

Debt: For those companies that issue debt securities in the form of, for example, bonds, convertible bonds, notes, debentures and other securities offering types, an offering memorandum is also needed. The OM will detail the amount one is raising, the maturity date, interest rates and many other variables and characteristics, including information, if need be, on clearing and settlement and depository services.

Worldwide Term Usage

The usage and popularity of the term offering memorandum is understood worldwide to mean a document, referred to as a “memorandum”, which details what the company is “offering” in return for investment capital. Read it backwards and you get “memorandum offering”, i.e. a document detailing the offering of securities. In addition to the term offering memorandum the most popular word for such a document is a prospectus and an offering circular and a private placement memorandum, as well a red herring and others are also employed.

Subscription Agreement

Finally, each offering memorandum will include the subscription agreement, which is a document that is essentially the contract between the investor and the company selling securities. The subscription agreement outlines the terms, and has numerous places for the investor to fill out and usually gives instruction where to send a check for subscribing to the securities, or bank wire details. The subscription agreement is also of great important to the offering memorandum, and in many cases is considered the “shoes” of the documents, while the rest of the memorandum is the clothes. Said another way, without a subscription agreement there can be no transaction between an investor and the company, i.e. something is missing from the memorandum if there is no subscription agreement.

Prospectus’ team of consultants and lawyers can help draft your Maine offering memorandum for either debt or equity issuance in an effective, fast and cost affordable way.

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