California Corporate & Securities Law

Suppose you desire to place your prized collection of bibelots into storage.  The storage company offers an to assume the risk of loss for an additional monthly payment.  Have you entered into:

•  a bet;
• an indemnity contract; or
• an insurance...

California Assemblymember Chris Holden has authored a bill that would require the University of California to conduct a study of the racial and ethnic diversity of the board of directors and employees of California high technology companies.  The...

When faced with someone who is blowing things out of proportion, one response might be "Don't make a federal case out of this!"  Sometimes, it may not even be possible to make a federal case.  The reason is that federal courts are courts of limited...

More than a half century ago, the World Health Assembly established the International Agency for Research on Cancer as the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization.  Although headquartered in Lyon, France, the IARC has a critical...

In 2011, the Department of Business Oversight filed a civil action against Investco Management & Development LLC and its promoters alleging various violations of the securities laws in connection with the offer and sale of LLC membership interests. ...

I have previously written about one California legislator's plan to impose gender quotas on publicly traded companies that have their principal executive offices in the state.  The bill is being heard today by the Senate Banking and Financial...

This should be a straightforward question - Are qualification and registration requirements under state securities laws preempted with respect to industrial development bonds?

When Congress enacted the National Securities Markets Improvement Act of...

California Corporations Code Section 25100 is a long list of securities exempt from the qualification requirements of the Corporate Securities Law of 1968.  Last on this list (Section 25100(t)) is any security issued or guaranteed by and...

Yesterday, the Nevada Supreme Court held that one party's material breach of a contract releases the non-breaching party's contractual obligation to a third-party beneficiary.  Cain v. Price, 134 Nev. Adv. Op. 26 (2018).  In this case, the contract...

In March, I wrote about AB 2571 which would have prohibited public pension fund investments in alternative investment vehicles that lacked race and gender pay equity policies.   Yesterday, the bill was amended to require public investment funds to...