If your fiancee resides in another country and you want to bring him or her to Australia for marriage, a subclass 300 prospective marriage visa is most likely your best choice. This visa category allows an individual to live, work, and study in Australia for up to nine months.

The objective of any new issue is to achieve the highest value for the issuer, while ensuring a buoyant start to secondary trading. The structure and the legal consequences of the due diligence process are presented. They require months of preparation by skilled teams of commercial, financial and legal experts.

Over the last 20 years, the most common mistake I see companies, large and small alike, making while going public is letting their "money raising" investment banker be their "senior consultant."

The new Pink Sheets Trading Categories are a tool to help investors gather the information they need on publicly traded companies quoted on the Pink Sheets. Since Pink Sheets is a trading venue that is driven by OTC market trading demand, it is hoped that categorizing securities by their level of disclosure will greatly enhance the capital formation process, and help prevent Micro cap fraud.

It is a common misconception in the small business community that one's company has to be a certain size and have a certain amount of revenues before one can go public.