California Corporate & Securities Law

Recently, I have written a few words about Austin, Nevada. The town is situated in Pony Canyon, over a mile high in the Toiyabe mountain range. Today, it bestrides U.S. Route 50, known as the "Loneliest Road in America". The town was founded on the...

The English word "impeach" is derived from the Latin preposition in, meaning in, on or into, and noun pedica, meaning a shackle or snare. The earliest recorded case of impeachment by the English House of Commons was in 1376 during the reign of...

In a recent post about Ruel Gridley's famous 50 lb. sack of flour, I mentioned The Reese River Reveille.  The Reveille began publishing in Austin, Nevada in 1863 and was published continuously for 130 years. Nevada seems to like newspapers because...

Pursuant to Financial Code Section 22159(a), licensees under the California Financing Law (CFL), the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Financing Program, and the Responsible Small Dollar Loan (RSDL) pilot program must submit annual reports for...

Pursuant to Article IV, Section 12(a) of the California Constitution, today is the deadline for the Governor to submit a proposed balanced budget. The next step is for the budget to be introduced into both houses of the legislature in identical...

Last month, C3.ai, Inc., an enterprise AI software company, closed its initial public offering with net proceeds to the Company of over $600 million. On the day of the IPO, the company's Chief Executive Officer, Tom Siebel, shared these less than...

In 1864, the voters of Austin, Nevada were almost evenly divided between supporters of the Union (Republicans) and advocates for an immediate peace treaty with the Confederacy (Copperheads). Two eminent citizens bet on the outcome of the election....

Over five years ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed amendments to its Rules of Practice to require persons involved in SEC administrative proceedings to file and serve documents electronically.  I was the first person to submit ...

John Jenkins at CorporateCounsel.net recently observed that "companies may want start thinking about including a diversity question on their annual D&Q questionnaires". Constructing such a questionnaire would not seem to be too difficult. Companies...