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Michael Terence Rave, Esq., A Distinguished Corporate, SEC, and MandA Attorney on SEC Filings: Forms You Need To Know

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New Jersey, US, 23rd September 2024, ZEX PR WIRE, Michael Terence Rave, Esq., an esteemed Corporate, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) attorney, marks more than two decades of remarkable serv.ice in the legal profession. Michael Rave’s expertise in SEC filings and federal securities law is unparalleled. In the realm of public M&A transactions, where a public company is being acquired, federal securities law plays a significant role. Rave’s extensive knowledge of SEC disclosure requirements ensures that companies remain compliant with regulations throughout the M&A process. 

He has consistently guided clients through the complex landscape of SEC filings, including Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, and Form 8-K, ensuring that they meet regulatory obligations and provide the necessary transparency to shareholders.

Rave’s experience extends to capital markets transactions, where his ability to manage stock issuance and coordinate with outside counsel has been instrumental in facilitating successful deals. His deep understanding of SEC regulations, combined with his practical experience, makes him a trusted advisor to companies navigating the complexities of public offerings and acquisitions.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) mandates that public companies, certain company insiders, and broker-dealers regularly submit financial statements and disclosures. Investors and finance professionals use these filings to assess potential investments. The SEC provides free access to these filings through EDGAR, its online database.

The SEC was established by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to restore investor confidence after the 1929 stock market crash. It serves as an independent government agency with the primary goals of protecting investors, maintaining orderly markets, and promoting capital formation.

The SEC selectively reviews submitted information to enhance compliance, allowing investors to assess a company’s performance. Below, we explore the most common forms companies must file with the SEC. Familiarity with these filings is valuable for investors performing due diligence.

Key Points

  • SEC filings are essential regulatory documents that offer vital information to investors.

  • The public can access these documents on the SEC’s EDGAR database.

  • Companies must file registration statements when offering shares to the public for the first time.

  • Among the most common SEC filings are Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, proxy statements, Forms 3, 4, and 5, Schedule 13D, Form 144, and Foreign Investment Disclosures.

  • The 10-K annual report provides a comprehensive financial summary, while proxy statements are filed before shareholder meetings to discuss elections of directors and other corporate matters.

Registration Statements

Registration statements disclose information about a company’s securities and financial status. Companies offering securities publicly typically file Form S-1. This filing includes a prospectus, which must be provided to potential investors, containing details about management, business operations, financial health, risks, and other pertinent information. Financial statements included must be audited by an independent CPA.

Importance of Registration Statements

These filings help investors evaluate new securities, offering insight into the issuer’s business, assets, management team, and financial statements. The prospectus offers quantitative and qualitative data that help investors gauge potential risks.

While the legal nature of these filings ensures transparency, they can be filled with complex legal language. Investors should focus on company-specific details and be cautious of blanket statements that could apply to any public company. Forward-looking statements in these documents are projections, not guarantees.

Form 10-K

Form 10-K is an annual filing that provides detailed insight into a company’s financial condition. While it overlaps with the company’s annual report, the 10-K is more technical and thorough, containing financial statements, a business summary, management’s discussion of operations, and details on legal matters.

Importance of Form 10-K

This form is essential for investors to track a company’s financial health and prospects. It provides detailed data for fundamental analysis, allowing investors to construct ratios and other metrics based on balance sheets, income statements, and cash flows.

Investors should pay attention to Item 1, which outlines the company’s business operations and customer base. Footnotes are also key, providing details on accounting methods and potential legal challenges.

Form 10-Q

Filed quarterly, Form 10-Q offers a snapshot of a company’s ongoing financial status. It is a shorter version of the 10-K and must be submitted for the first three quarters of the fiscal year. Unlike the 10-K, the 10-Q contains unaudited financial statements and is less detailed.

Importance of Form 10-Q

The 10-Q allows investors to keep tabs on a company’s performance throughout the year. Investors can track key areas such as working capital, accounts receivable, inventory, and legal risks. Comparing 10-Qs with those of competitors helps provide a broader perspective on the company’s performance.

Form 8-K

Form 8-K is used to disclose significant events that occur between 10-K or 10-Q filings. Examples include bankruptcies, mergers, asset disposals, and executive changes.

Importance of Form 8-K

This form provides timely updates on major developments, allowing investors to react quickly. It serves as a reliable source for financial research, as firms are required to file these documents transparently.

Proxy Statement

The proxy statement offers a glimpse into executive salaries, perks, and other corporate matters ahead of shareholder meetings. Shareholders use these statements to cast their votes on director elections and other significant issues.

Importance of Proxy Statement

Shareholders who cannot attend annual meetings can use proxy votes to participate in decision-making. These votes cover director elections and other corporate actions, and proxy statements present the issues to be voted on.

Understanding SEC filings equips investors with the knowledge needed to make informed decisions when evaluating companies and their securities.

About Michael Rave

In addition to his impressive legal career, is the Founder and CEO of Brandywine Legal Recruiting, LLC, a firm specializing in the placement of corporate attorneys. His leadership at Brandywine Legal Recruiting has allowed him to extend his impact beyond his own legal practice, helping corporations and law firms find the right legal talent to navigate complex regulatory landscapes and achieve their business goals.

Beyond his legal accomplishments, Michael Rave is a dedicated and passionate advocate for animal welfare. He has served as a lead volunteer at the Brandywine Valley SPCA, where he works tirelessly to support dog adoption initiatives and improve the lives of animals in need. His volunteer work at the SPCA highlights his deep commitment to giving back to the community and making a positive impact on the lives of others.

In addition to his volunteer efforts, Rave is an avid triathlete, training for national competitions and consistently pushing the boundaries of his physical endurance. His passion for fitness and commitment to personal growth serve as a testament to his discipline and drive, both in and out of the legal profession.

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Michael Terence Rave, Esq.

Founder and CEO of Brandywine Legal Recruiting

Phone: 862-330-7507

Location: Pennsville, NJ

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/michael-rave-887b3984

www.brandywinelegalrecruitng.com

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SCHOLAR RECEIVE NOMINATIONS FOR A NOBEL PRIZE IN PEACE AND LITERATURE

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Dr. Thomas Luke, Ph.D., received a double nomination for the prestigious 2025 Nobel Prize in Peace and Literature.

Prof. Luke’s articles have appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals including The Doctrine of Eternal Security: A Reflection on Perseverance of the Saints and Geography of the Bible: Exploring the Physical and Historical Context of the Old Testament Scriptures.

The Least of These, second edition: has received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Peace Nomination, and his Ph.D. dissertation, Transformational Theology, has also recently been nominated for the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature Nomination.

“I am humbled to have been nominated for such a prestigious prize, even if I do not win. I also want to thank my loving wife and ministry partner Johana for being another great blessing in my life.

Luke and his wife Johana Carolina Sopacua, MA work together as ministry partners in Bali, Indonesia where they were recently married in October 2024. The nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature and Peace serve to underscore their dedication to doing good works the world over.

For more information, please visit Dr. Luke’s website: DrLuke.tv  

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Riema Labs Inc. (Nubit) Unveils Goldinals: The Unified Protocol for Bitcoin Assets

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Summary: Riema Labs Inc. (Nubit) introduces Goldinals, a Bitcoin-native token protocol designed to unify fragmented asset standards, enable programmability, and bring trustless innovation to Bitcoin.

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands – Bitcoin’s growing ecosystem has given rise to various meta-protocols like BRC-20, Ordinals, and Runes, creating a fragmented and often inefficient environment for digital assets. Riema Labs Inc. (Nubit), a pioneer in Bitcoin-native infrastructure, has unveiled Goldinals, a unified protocol for Bitcoin assets, a trust-minimized fungible token standard that promises to unify these protocols and bring advanced programmability to Bitcoin, all while adhering to Bitcoin’s core principles of security and decentralization.

What Is Goldinals?

Goldinals is a unified protocol for Bitcoin assets.

Bitcoins unmatched security has solidified its dominance, but its lack of global state and native programmability has limited its utility for asset issuance. Protocols like BRC-20 and Ordinals rely on off-chain indexers, introducing inefficiencies and trust issues.

Goldinals eliminates these pain points by bringing two advancements:

  1. A unified, trust-minimized protocol that allows seamless interoperability across existing standards like BRC-20, Ordinals, Runes, and CAT. Developers no longer need to design fragmented, one-off solutions for new assets.
  2. Native programmability powered by BitVM, enabling the on-chain execution of advanced logic such as token gating, multi-signature wallets, and conditional transfers–all without sacrificing Bitcoin’s core principles of security and decentralization.

For developers, Goldinals offers an ERC-20-inspired API—Deploy, Mint, Transfer, and Burn–making it intuitive to create scalable applications. For users, Goldinals ensures that all operations are validated directly on-chain, delivering a seamless, secure, and unified experience for Bitcoin-native assets.

Unifying Bitcoin’s Asset Ecosystem

Bitcoin’s asset ecosystem has become a tangle of competing protocols, each with its strengths and limitations. BRC-20, for example, enabled native tokens on Bitcoin but relies heavily on centralized indexers for state management, creating vulnerabilities. Ordinals revolutionized data inscription but offers limited programmability. Other protocols, like CAT, require changes to Bitcoin’s consensus rules, which makes widespread adoption impractical.

Goldinals solves these problems by unifying Bitcoin’s asset ecosystem into a single standard that combines compatibility, security, cost-efficiency and scalability. Key features include:

  • Full compatibility with existing protocols like BRC-20 and Ordinals, ensuring that developers don’t need to reinvent the wheel to build new features.
  • Interoperability across applications, enabling seamless integration of both current and future innovations.
  • Trust minimization, achieved by validating every operation directly on Bitcoin using zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) and BitVM, eliminating reliance on centralized services or external indexers.
  • Reduced transaction costs and improved scalability, powered by ZKPs for state compression and BitVM for off-chain computation. This ensures even complex operations are efficient, cost-effective, and secure.

Goldinals creates an environment where wallets, exchanges, and developers can operate without fragmentation, turning Bitcoin into a cohesive platform for decentralized finance, token issuance, and programmable assets.

Goldinals: The Gold Standard for Bitcoin Assets

Goldinals doesn’t merely address Bitcoin’s current challenges–it redefines its future. By combining trust minimization, native programmability, and ecosystem unification, Goldinals enables applications and assets that were previously unimaginable on Bitcoin. From trustless crowdsales to DeFi protocols, Goldinals is paving the way for Bitcoin to become the ultimate platform for decentralized innovation.

As Bitcoin’s ecosystem continues to expand, Goldinals is set to become the definitive standard for fungible tokens, driving adoption and innovation across the network.

To learn more about Goldinals and explore the full research, check out the detailed whitepaper here: https://www.nubit.org/Goldinals.pdf

About Riema Labs Inc. (Nubit)

Building the Trustless World Computer for Bitcoin.

Founded by UCSB professor Yu Feng, Riema Labs Inc. (Nubit) is building the Trustless World Computer for Bitcoin, enabling open scaling through Bitcoin-native technology. Riema Labs Inc. (Nubit) lets developers build any native application, onboarding the world to Bitcoin. Backed by Polychain.

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BitRivals Announce Initial Alpha Offering in AlphaLauncher.io – A Whole New Generation of Web3 Gaming

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BitRivals, the revolutionary Web3 gaming platform, will have an Initial Alpha Offering via AlphaLauncher.io on January 13, 2025, at 2 PM UTC. This date represents a new important milestone in BitRivals’ quest to rewrite gaming rules, allowing users to join a decentralized, player-centric ecosystem. It is here to introduce the new play-to-earn model, where actual rewards for gaming are possible and give ownership of in-game assets in ways never seen before.

                 

The BitRivals IAO occuring on January 13, 2025, at 2 PM UTC on AlphaLauncher.io. The total raise is $200,000, and the IAO will be in the USDC. One token will be sold for $0.01. The offering will be on the Base blockchain, and participants can buy up to $999 per wallet. There will be a structured vesting schedule: 20% of the tokens at the TGE, then a 15-day cliff, then linear vesting over the next five months. More than that, BitRivals provides a 24-hour ClaimBack policy, which makes the platform very flexible and game-fair to every participant.

What’s special about BitRivals?

BitRivals is not just another Web3 gaming platform; it’s a different paradigm regarding how users interact with these digital ecosystems. BitRivals focuses on just three basic principles of change that will alter how users experience gaming:

Ownership redefined through the implementation of blockchain technology, BitRivals hands over to players complete ownership over all their in-game assets. In full tokenization of assets, one can trade, sell, or keep them in ownership at any moment. The amount of control placed in a player’s hands thus re-positions it to assume an authoritative stance above the dictations that traditional game models often bring on in-game.

BitRivals uses the FCFS model with no restrictions so that anyone can participate in the IAO. The processes are so uncomplicated and open that whether one is a fresh beginner or an old hand at Web3 has little bearing on this, so let it be all-inclusive.

A Seamless Experience for Participants

Events such as the IAO will take place on AlphaLauncher.io, one of the more trustable platforms for blockchain-based token launches. Users seeking to participate in the BitRivals IAO are invited to follow the simple steps:

  • Visit AlphaLauncher.io: Head to the platform’s website to get started with the IAO registration process.
  • Setting up your wallet on the base chain: Ensure your wallet is set to interact with the Base blockchain, which hosts the BitRivals ecosystem.
  • Learn More About BitRivals: To learn about the game, ecosystem, and many other things, check out the website BitRivals. 
  • Join on January 13th, 2025, at 2 PM UTC: Be prepared to purchase BitRivals tokens when the IAO goes live.

How to Get Involved:

For more information about the IAO, interested parties can visit AlphaLauncher.io for more details and preparation for the January 13 launch. To learn more about the BitRivals platform, its roadmap, features, and vision for the future of gaming, visit the BitRivals official website at: https://bitrivals.com 

About BitRivals

BitRivals is a gaming powerhouse that enables gamification powered by Web3. Its main core can empower every player with real rewards and possession over their virtual items. At the core of the BitRivals initiative lies an offer of value that will break new ground in decentralization for players and industry developers while cultivating a truly player-centric environment in gaming.

About AlphaLauncher.io

AlphaLauncher.io is one of the top-notch launchpads, home to some of the most innovative projects leading in Web3. Embodying a high level of transparency, security, and end-user experience, AlphaLauncher.io will provide full support in enabling game-changing initiatives such as BitRivals.

For more information, please refer to AlphaLauncher.io and BitRivals’ official website.

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Spencer Kolssak

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