Client Alert
| July 19, 2010
Continuous Equity Financing with Forwards: A Practical Solution to Strategic Capital Raising
As the financial markets began to emerge from the latest economic crisis, issuers increasingly employed at-the-market continuous equity financing programs to raise capital. Also known as sales agency programs or equity “dribble-outs,” as well as by many acronyms (such as “SAFE” programs or “ATM equity”), these financing programs are designed to allow issuers to quickly and opportunistically access equity markets, especially during periods of high volatility when a “traditional” equity issuance may not be economically attractive.
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