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

California's LLC Certificate of Cancellation - One Form That May Not Fit All

The California Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act deals separately with the dissolution and cancellation of a California limited liability company and the cancellation of registration of a foreign limited liability company. Yet, the...

Court Of Appeal Holds Stock Options Are Not Wages, But Damages Need Not Be Measured At The Time Of Breach

As an employee of Skillz Inc., Gautam Shah received awards of stock options. Under the Skillz plan, Mr. Shah could exercise his vested options within three months of his termination of employment. However, his options expired on the date of his...

Is The SEC's Shadow Trading Win Proof That There Is A Federal Common Law Of Crime After All?

Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Director of Enforcement  celebrated a jury verdict in its insider trading case against Matthew Panuwat:

Strangers In A Strange Land - In California, Bumblebees, Crabs and Snails Are Fishes And A General Partnership May Soon Be A Corporation

In California, some things are not what they seem.  Here, a bumblebee, a crab or snail can be a fish, but a goldfish may not be a fish.  See California Believes Clams, Crabs and Bumblebees Are Fish, Does It Now Believe That Joshua Trees Are A Type Of...

Why Haven't More Corporations Reincorporated In Nevada?

A great deal of attention, including in this blog, has been focused Delaware corporations reincorporating in Nevada and other states.  See, e.g., Reasons To Quit Delaware Are Gettin' Bigger Each Day and Are Delaware Corporations "Rolling Down Hill,...

Reverse Stock Splits And The California Corporate Securities Law

Meredith Ervine recently wrote about reverse stock splits and Nasdaq listed issuers. A reverse stock split is the "go to" solution for many listed issuers whose share prices fall below the minimum continued stock exchange listing requirements....

Judge Rules Plaintiff Lacked Standing To Claim Damages Whilst Still Holding Securities

Part 5 of the California Corporate Securities Law of 1968 sets forth a number of fraudulent and prohibited practices.  One of these practices is to "to offer or sell a security in this state, or to buy or offer to buy a security in this state, by...

California Seeks To Delay Demise Of California Climate Related Disclosure Statutes, But Why?

In February, I noted that the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America and several others filed suit in the Central District Court challenging two laws passed last year.  See As Foretold, California's New Forced Speech Laws Are Being...

Boilerplate Risk Factors - Is Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky To Blame?

A recent paper by four law professors takes a look at risk factor disclosures in Form 10-Qs and 10-Ks filed by 3,000 firms from January 2020 through the end of 2023.  Stephen Choi, Mitu Gulati, Xuan Liu, and Adam Pritchard, Covid-19 Risk Factors and...

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