2016 Delaware Code
Title 6 - Commerce and Trade
CHAPTER 73. SECURITIES ACT
Subchapter II Provisions Relating to the Offer, Sale, and Purchase of Securities
§ 73-204. Registration of securities by qualification.

(a) Any security may be registered by qualification.

(b) A registration statement under this section shall contain the following information and be accompanied by the following documents in addition to the information specified in § 73-205(b) of this title and the consent to service of process required by § 73-702 of this title:

(1) The name of the issuer, its address, and form of organization; the state and date of its organization; the general character and location of its business; a description of its physical properties and equipment; and a statement of the general competitive conditions in the industry or business in which it is or will be engaged;

(2) With respect to every director and officer of the issuer, or person occupying a similar status or performing similar functions: The person's name, address and principal occupation for the past 5 years; the amount of securities of the issuer held by the person as of a specified date within 30 days of the filing; the amount of the securities covered by the filing to which the person has indicated an intention to subscribe; and a description of any material interest in any material transaction with the issuer or any significant subsidiary effected within the past 3 years or proposed to be effected;

(3) With respect to persons covered by paragraph (b)(2) of this section: The remuneration paid during the past 12 months and estimated to be paid during the next 12 months, directly or indirectly, by the issuer (together with all predecessors, parents, subsidiaries and affiliates) to all those persons in the aggregate;

(4) With respect to any person owning of record, or beneficially 10 percent or more of the outstanding shares of any class or equity security of the issuer; the information specified in paragraph (b)(2) of this section other than the person's occupation;

(5) With respect to every promoter if the issuer was organized within the past 3 years; the information specified in paragraph (b)(2) of this section, any amount paid within that period or intended to be paid to him or her, and the consideration for any such payment;

(6) With respect to any person on whose behalf any part of the offering is to be made in a nonissuer distribution or in a distribution in which only part of the securities are being distributed by the issuer: The person's name and address; the amount of securities of the issuer held as of the date of the filing; a description of any material interest in any material transaction with the issuer or any significant subsidiary effected within the past 3 years or proposed to be effected; and a statement of the person's reasons for making the offering;

(7) The capitalization and long-term debt (on both a current and a pro forma basis) of the issuer and any significant subsidiary, including a description of each security outstanding or being registered or otherwise offered, and a statement of the amount and kind of consideration (whether in the form of cash, physical assets, services, patents, goodwill, or anything else) for which the issuer or any subsidiary has issued any of its securities within the past 2 years or is obligated to issue any of its securities;

(8) The kind and amount of securities to be offered; the proposed offering price or the method by which it is to be computed; any variation therefrom at which any proportion of the offering is to be made to any person or class or persons other than the underwriters with a specification of any such person or class; the basis upon which the offering is to be made if otherwise than for cash; the estimated aggregate underwriting and selling discounts or commissions and finders' fees (including separately cash, securities, contracts, or anything else of value to accrue to the underwriters or finders in connection with the offering) or, if the selling discounts or commissions are variable, the basis of determining them and their maximum and minimum amounts; the estimated amounts of other selling expenses, including legal, engineering, and accounting charges; the name and address of every underwriter and every recipient of a finder's fee; a copy of any underwriting or selling-group agreement pursuant to which the distribution is to be made, or the proposed form of any such agreement whose terms have not yet been determined, and a description of the plan of distribution of any securities which are to be offered otherwise than through an underwriter;

(9) The estimated cash proceeds to be received by the issuer from the offering; the purposes for which the proceeds are to be used by the issuer; the amount to be used for each purpose; the order or priority in which the proceeds will be used for the purposes stated; the amounts of any funds to be raised from other sources to achieve the purposes stating the sources of any such funds; and, if any part of the proceeds is to be used to acquire any property (including goodwill) otherwise than in the ordinary course of business, the names and addresses of the vendors, the purchase price, the names of any persons who have received commissions in connection with the acquisition, and the amounts of any such commissions and any other expense in connection with the acquisition (including the cost of borrowing money to finance the acquisition);

(10) A description of any stock options or other security options outstanding or to be created in connection with the offering, together with the amount of any such options held or to be held by every person required to be named in paragraph (b)(2), (4), (5), (6), or (8) of this section and by any person who holds or will hold 10 percent or more in the aggregate of any such options;

(11) The dates of, parties to, and general effect concisely stated of, every management or other material contract made or to be made otherwise than in the ordinary course of business if it is to be performed in whole or in part at or after the filing of the registration statement or was made within the past 2 years, together with a copy of every such contract; and a description of any pending litigation or proceeding to which the issuer is a party and which materially affects its business or assets (including any such litigation or proceeding known to be contemplated by governmental authorities);

(12) Three copies of the prospectus required by subsection (d) of this section, together with a copy of any other prospectus, pamphlet, circular, form letter, advertisement, or other sales literature intended as of the effective date to be used in connection with the offering;

(13) A specimen or copy of the security being registered; a copy of the issuer's articles of incorporation and bylaws, or their substantial equivalents, as currently in effect; and a copy of any indenture or other instrument covering the security to be registered;

(14) A signed or conformed copy of an opinion of counsel as to the legality of the security being registered (with an English translation if it is in a foreign language), which shall state whether the security when sold will be legally issued, fully paid, and nonassessable, and if a debt security, a binding obligation of the issuer;

(15) The written consent of any accountant, engineer, appraiser, or other person whose profession gives authority to a statement made by him or her, if any such person is named as having prepared or certified the report or evaluation (other than a public and official document or statement) which is used in connection with the registration statement;

(16) A balance sheet of the issuer as of a date within the last quarter prior to the filing of the registration statement; a profit and loss statement and analysis of surplus for each of the 3 fiscal years preceding the date of the balance sheet and for any period between the close of the last fiscal year and the date of the balance sheet, or for the period of the issuer's and predecessor's existence of less than 3 years; and, if any part of the proceeds of the offering is to be applied to the purchase of any business, the same financial statements which would be required of that business for the registrant;

(17) Such additional information as the Director requires by rule, regulation, or order.

(c) A registration statement under this section becomes effective when the Director so orders.

(d) As a condition of registration under this section, a prospectus containing any designated part of the information specified in subsection (b) of this section shall be sent or given to each person to whom an offer is made before or concurrently with:

(1) The first written offer made to the person (otherwise than by means of a public advertisement) by or for the account of the issuer or any other person on whose behalf the offering is being made, or by any other writer or broker-dealer who is offering part of an unsold allotment or subscription taken by the person as a participant in the distribution;

(2) The confirmation of any sale made by or for the account of any such person;

(3) Payment pursuant to any such sale; or

(4) Delivery of the security pursuant to any such sale, whichever first occurs; provided, however, that paragraph (d)(1) of this section may be satisfied by the use of a preliminary prospectus, so designated and bearing such legend as the Director may prescribe, if a final prospectus is sent or given to each recipient of the preliminary prospectus before or concurrently with whichever event in paragraphs (d)(2), (3) and (4) of this section first occurs.

(e) Every person filing a registration statement under this section, or under § 73-203 of this title, shall pay a filing fee as provided by rule or regulation, but in no case shall the fee be less than $200 or more than $1,000. In addition, the Director may require reasonable fees for miscellaneous costs absorbed by the Investor Protection Unit for the printing, copying, filing or transcription of other documents.

(f) The Director may exercise rule making authority under § 73-102(b) of this title to establish special registration procedures for limited offerings. These procedures, including filing requirements and fees, may differ from the qualification procedures set forth above.

6 Del. C. 1953, § 7306; 59 Del. Laws, c. 208, § 1; 68 Del. Laws, c. 181, §§ 1, 13; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 560, §§ 1, 6; 78 Del. Laws, c. 175, §§ 14-20, 90, 118; 79 Del. Laws, c. 182, §§ 1, 3.;