Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

Title 17 - Commodity and Securities Exchanges last revised: Nov 19, 2024
§ 260.3(4)-2 - Definition of “distribution” in section 303(4) for certain transactions.

A person, the chief part of the business of which consists in the purchase of the securities of any one issuer and/or its affiliate and in the sale of its own securities to furnish the proceeds with which to acquire the securities of such issuer and/or affiliate, is to be regarded as engaged in the distribution of the securities of such issuer and/or affiliate within the meaning of section 303(4).

source: 5 FR 293, Jan. 25, 1940, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 17 CFR 260.3