The gateway for SMEs to access the capital markets, without having to become a public company.
To apply for listing on BEE4 as a private issuer, the SME must submit the following documents:
BEE4 registration form;
Consolidated and updated articles of association, together with a document evidencing shareholder approval of the Listing Application on BEE4;
Agreement Granting Access Rights as an Issuer.
To file the offering request, the issuer must submit:
Companies that choose to remain privately held may decide whether or not to admit their securities for trading by investors in the secondary market. If that is the objective, that is, if they wish to access the secondary market, they will need to comply with the disclosure obligations set forth in the regulation.
In this case, the information must be submitted to BEE4, with no need to maintain an Investor Relations page on the company’s own website. These obligations include:
If it chooses not to trade the securities in the secondary market, the SME is not required to keep its financial results publicly available to the market.