Yesterday, the SEC announced that its Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee will meet on Tuesday, April 28th at 10:00 am Eastern.  Here’s the agenda for the meeting, which, as this overview from the SEC’s press release indicates, is all about figuring out how to encourage more IPOs:

The committee will start the morning session by hearing from its members about their perspectives on the state of the IPO market while considering the existing regulatory framework and how decreased IPO activity and market shifts are impacting companies’ (including small caps’) desires to go public. Edwin O’Connor, Partner, Co-Chair of Capital Markets, Goodwin Procter LLP will share his views on the IPO market, trends, and factors that may be at play.

This conversation will continue into the afternoon session where the committee will hear from Beau Bohm, Managing Director, Global Co-Head of Equity Capital Markets, Cantor Fitzgerald, who will share views on the IPO market from the underwriter’s perspective.

The meeting will be open to the public and will be live streamed on SEC.gov.

– John Jenkins