The Perfect Corporate Board: A Handbook for Mastering the Unique Challenges of Small-Cap Companies

PART 1CORPORATE FINANCE

There are few corporate actions that small-cap officers and directors approach with more trepidation than financings. And for good reason. Financings are expensive, dilutive, time-consuming, and often stressful. For the vast majority of small-cap companies,¹ they are a routine necessity.

For better or worse, no two financings are ever the same. At the macro level, political and economic forces both in the United States and abroad conspire to create capital markets volatility; sometimes the volatility helps financings, and sometimes it hurts. At the micro level, industries thrive and suffer cyclically, and thus fall in and out of favor in the capital markets. At the company level, officers and directors come and go, financial ...