2019-02-20
The Securities and Exchange Commission has introduced flexible timing for filing consent letters, permitting submission either at the transaction's initial stage or with executed offer documents in a single complete batch. The regulatory body also streamlined the execution of advertisement materials and specimen documents by waiving them entirely for book-building transactions without a retail tranche and limiting execution to issuing houses for other offerings. For sub-national issuers, consent letters and offer document execution are now restricted to the Governor, Commissioner for Finance, Accountant-General, and Attorney-General, eliminating the previously burdensome requirement for full State Cabinet participation.