Keith Paul Bishop

Keith Paul Bishop

Keith Bishop works with privately-held and publicly-traded companies on federal and state corporate and securities transactions, compliance, and governance matters. He is highly-regarded for his in-depth knowledge of the distinctive corporate and regulatory requirements faced by corporations in the state of California. While many law firms have a great deal of expertise in federal or Delaware corporate law, Keith’s specific focus on California corporate and securities law is uncommon. A former California state regulator of securities and financial institutions, Keith has decades of experience navigating the regulatory-intensive state’s rules. For companies with substantial operations in California but incorporated elsewhere, Keith is an exceptional resource. He is frequently called in to help with issues arising under California’s “blue sky” and lender laws. An avid writer, Keith’s blog, www.calcorporatelaw.com, covers a diverse collection of California corporate and securities law issues and has served as a valued resource for other attorneys, business executives, judges, and media, nationwide.

Recent Posts

Should One-A-Day Be Once-A-Day?

Miles Laboratories pioneered the concept of daily dosing of multivitamins and minerals in the 1940s with the introduction of its One A Day brand. Now owned by Bayer AG, the brand encompasses a suite of vitamins for targeted at men, women and...

Why Is Memoranda Plural And Agenda Singular?

"Memoranda" and "agenda" are both Latin words.  More precisely, they are gerundives.  A gerundive is a verbal adjective.  Perhaps the most famous use of a gerundive is the passive periphrastic phrase Carthago delenda est! (Carthage must be destroyed). 

New Law Empowers The California Secretary Of State To "Monitor And Counteract" False Or Misleading Information

I have previously noted how state efforts to police "false news" dates to at least colonial times.  See California Considers Following New England Colonists In Outlawing Fake News.  Continuing this trend, Governor Brown last week signed legislation, ...

Watch Out, Small Commercial Lending Might Soon Become A lot More Complicated!

Way back in February, I wrote about a bill, SB 1235, that would impose specific disclosure requirements on persons engaged in the business of commercial financing. In the ensuing months, the bill was amended eight times, including three amendments...

Why California's Gender Quota Bill Is More Likely To Be Unconstitutional Than California's Pseudo-Foreign Corporation Statute

In the waning hours of the current session, the California legislature passed a bill that will impose gender quotas on publicly held domestic or foreign corporations whose principal executive offices, according to the corporation’s SEC 10-K form,...

More On Corporations Sole and California's Gender Mandate For Public Company Boards

Following yesterday's post, Professor Bainbridge directed me to a 2007 article that he co-wrote with Aaron Cole, The Bishop's Alter Ego: Enterprise Liability and the Catholic Priest Sex Abuse Scandal, 46 J. Catholic Legal Studies 65 (2007). The...

A Corporation May Be A Corporation Sole But It Still Won't Have A Soul

Professor Stephen Bainbridge recently wrote about the nearly fifty year-old case of Roman Catholic Archbishop v. Superior Court, 93 Cal. Rptr. 338 (1971) in which the court rejected the plaintiff's claim that the Archbishop was the alter ego of a...

Did Laban Have An Enforceable Employment Agreement With Jacob?

Chapter 29 of the Book of Genesis recounts Jacob's offer to work for his Uncle Laban for seven years in return for the hand of Laban's younger daughter, Rachel. I assume that under then applicable choice of law principles the contract was governed...

"I Say You Are No Longer A Board"

Several Nevada statutes provide for the appointment of a receiver or custodian of a corporation, including NRS 32.010, NRS 78.347, NRS 78.630 and NRS 78.650. Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals addressed whether directors of a Nevada...