The Securities and Exchange Commission will host the 39th annual Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation virtually on June 18, 2020. The Forum will be live streamed. It will focus on the challenges faced by small businesses in the current environment. Sessions also will address women-owned, minority-owned, and rural businesses and their investors and potential paths for the next generation of publicly-owned companies. The Forum will be hosted by the Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation and will take place over a half-day, beginning at noon ET. The Forum will begin with a session highlighting perspectives and insights from thought leaders across the capital formation marketplace, followed by two consecutive sessions where participants will formulate capital formation policy recommendations for Congress and the SEC.

Additional information regarding the event and registration may be accessed here.

Originally published May 21, 2020

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