(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 subsection (c) of section 36b-19 and the consent to service of process required by subsection (g) of section 36b-33 :
(1)With respect to the issuer and any significant subsidiary: Its name, address, and form of organization; the state or foreign jurisdiction and date of its organization; the general character and location of its business; a discussion of the principal factors that make the offering speculative or one of high risk; a description of its physical properties and equipment, and a statement of the general competitive conditions in the industry or busi
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(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 subsection (c) of section 36b-19 and the consent to service of process required by subsection (g) of section 36b-33 : (1) With respect to the issuer and any significant subsidiary: Its name, address, and form of organization; the state or foreign jurisdiction and date of its organization; the general character and location of its business; a discussion of the principal factors that make the offering speculative or one of high risk; 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: His name, address and principal occupation for the past five years; the amount of securities of the issuer held by him as of a specified date within thirty days of the filing of the registration statement; the amount of the securities covered by the registration statement to which he has indicated his 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 three years or proposed to be effected; (3) with respect to persons covered by subdivision (2) of this subsection: The remuneration paid during the past twelve months and estimated remuneration to be paid during the next twelve months, directly or indirectly, by the issuer together with all predecessors, parents, subsidiaries and affiliates to all such persons in the aggregate; (4) with respect to any person owning of record, or beneficially if known, ten per cent or more of the outstanding shares of any class of equity security of the issuer: The information specified in said subdivision (2) of this subsection other than his occupation; (5) with respect to every promoter if the issuer was organized within the past three years: The information specified in said subdivision (2) of this subsection, any amount paid to him within that period or intended to be paid to him, 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: His name and address; the amount of securities of the issuer held by him as of the date of the filing of the registration statement; a description of any material interest in any material transaction with the issuer or any significant subsidiary effected within the past three years or proposed to be effected; and a statement of his reasons for making the offering; (7) the capitalization and long-term debt, on both a current and 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, good will or anything else, for which the issuer or any subsidiary has issued any of its securities within the past two 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 of 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 stated; the sources of any such funds, and, if any part of the proceeds is to be used to acquire any property, including good will, other 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 subdivision (2), (4), (5), (6) or (8) of this subsection and by any person who holds or will hold ten per cent 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 two years, together with a copy of every such contract; (12) a description of any material litigation or proceeding commenced or resolved within the past ten years, including any administrative proceeding or any disciplinary action by self-regulatory organizations, to which the issuer or any of its officers, directors, persons nominated as directors or general partners, any beneficial owner of ten per cent or more of any class of its equity securities, any promoter or any underwriter of the securities to be offered, including any partner, director or officer of any such underwriter, was named a party, provided any conviction for any misdemeanor involving a security or any aspect of the securities business or any felony shall be deemed material unless determined by the commissioner not to be material; (13) a copy of any prospectus, pamphlet, circular, form letter, advertisement or other sales literature intended as of the effective date to be used in connection with the offering; (14) 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; (15) 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; (16) the written consent of any accountant, engineer, appraiser or other person whose profession gives authority to a statement made by him if any such person is named as having prepared or certified a report or valuation other than a public and official document or statement which is used in connection with the registration statement; (17) (A) a balance sheet, statement of income and cash flow and changes in stockholders' equity of the issuer as of the date within four months prior to the filing of the registration statement, which financial statements may be unaudited, provided if the issuer has been in business for less than one full year from the date of the filing of the registration statement, such financial statements must be reviewed by an independent certified public accountant; (B) a balance sheet, statement of income and cash flow and changes in stockholders' equity for each of the three preceding fiscal years, which financial statements must be audited by an independent certified public accountant; and (C) 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 if that business were the registrant; and (18) such additional information as the commissioner requires by regulation or order. (c) A registration statement under this section becomes effective when the commissioner so orders. (d) The commissioner may by regulation or order require as a condition of registration under this section that a prospectus containing any designated part of the information specified in subsection (b) of this section be sent or given to each person to whom an offer is made before or concurrently with (1) the first written offer made to him, 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 underwriter or broker-dealer who is offering part of an unsold allotment or subscription taken by him 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.