Fabry-Pérot Interferometer, SA is a highly successful non-US company known to the world as FPI. FPI is considering doing a debt or equity offering in the United States. What are the key legal issues it, and its underwriters or financial advisors, are likely to face? This book was written to help answer that question. Our aim is to help the FPIs of the world and their investment bankers understand better the regulatory regime applicable to capital-raising activities in the United States.