Court Finds Usurpation Of LLC Opportunity To Be Derivative

My last few posts have been devoted to the Court of Appeal's opinion in Tuli v. Specialty Surgical Center of Thousand Oaks, LLC, 2024 WL 4499271 (Oct. 16, 2024). The case relates to the plaintiff's "decade-long litigation campaign against his former...

Is Failing To Hold A Formal Board Meeting A Breach of Contract?

In yesterday's post, I discussed Tuli v. Specialty Surgical Center of Thousand Oaks, LLC, 2024 WL 4499271 (Oct. 16, 2024) and whether alleged personal animosity vitiated application of the business judgment rule to the governing board of a limited...

Does Personal Animosity Vitiate The Business Judgment Rule?

Under the business judgment rule, "a director is not liable for a mistaken business judgment which is made in good faith and in what he or she believes to be in the best interest of the corporation, where no conflict of interest exists.”   Gaillard v....

As Predicted, Digital Financial Asset Law Is Delayed

Exactly one year ago today, I wrote that Governor Newsom had signed a bill, AB 39, that will prohibit a person from engaging in digital financial asset business activity without a license from Department of Financial Protection & Innovation. AB 39...

Where Corporations Most Often Propose To Reincorporate

Recently, I wrote that The Trade Desk, Inc. is proposing to reincorporate from Delaware into Nevada.  An appendix to the company's definitive proxy statement includes a table ofProposed Reincorporations, Proxy Filings from January 1, 2021 to August...

Did The FBI Violate The Securities Laws By Directing The Creation Of A Crypto Asset That Was Offered And Sold To The Public?

Professor Ann Lipton recently wrote about an ingenious scheme developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that has resulted in indictments of 18 individuals and entities for alleged fraud and manipulation in the crypto currency markets....

Yet Another Corporation Proposes Move From Delaware To Nevada

Regular readers of this blog will know that Nevada corporate law has been a long-time interest for me. That interest began several decades ago when I wrote the first treatise on Nevada corporate law. That treatise was published by Prentice Hall in...

Stockholders Fail To Approve Proposal To Reincorporate Nevada Corporation In Delaware

Although much attention of late has been devoted to proposals to reincorporate in Nevada from Delaware, not every corporation is swimming in the same direction.  Last May, Kintara Therapeutics, Inc., a Nevada corporation, filed a registration...

Two Commissioners Blow The Whistle On Award Program's Lack Of Transparency

About eight years ago, I propounded the following five theses regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission's whistleblower bounty program:  

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