Investment Banking

Learn the underwriting, tender-offer, control-security, private-placement, and limited-offering framework tested in Series 14.

The sixth Series 14 chapter tests the compliance officer’s understanding of investment-banking rules at a broad regulatory level. The exam covers underwriting, M&A and restructuring, fixed-price offerings, tender offers, control and restricted securities, private placements, and limited offerings. The compliance officer is not expected to structure deals, but is expected to recognize where these activities create disclosure, information-barrier, and conduct obligations.

Read this chapter as the transactional-regulation layer. The central question is what the firm may do, what it must disclose, and how it prevents misuse of confidential information while these transactions are in progress.

In this section

  • Underwriting, M&A, and Restructuring
    Review the underwriting-process, M&A, restructuring, and information-barrier concepts that open the Series 14 investment-banking chapter.
  • Fixed Price Offerings
    Learn the basic rule framework around fixed-price offerings and the compliance issues they create on Series 14.
  • Tender Offers
    Review tender-offer restrictions and the misuse-of-information risks that Series 14 tests in offer contexts.
  • Control and Restricted Securities
    Learn the resale, distribution, and exemption concepts that govern control and restricted securities on Series 14.
  • Private Placements
    Review member-private-placement rules and the main exemption frameworks that Series 14 expects compliance officers to recognize.
  • Limited Offerings
    Learn the small-offering exemption concepts and related compliance posture tested in the final Series 14 investment-banking section.
Revised on Thursday, April 23, 2026