Last year, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster's ruled that McDonald's Corporation's former Executive Vice President and Global ChiefPeople Officer, David Fairhurst, owed a duty of oversight comparable to the duty articulated by Chancellor Allen in In...

Keith Paul Bishop
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A California corporation begins existence upon the filing of its articles of incorporation. Cal. Corp. Code § 200(c). The filing of initial articles of incorporation starts a 90 day clock on the filing of the newly hatched corporation's initial...
Is the issuance of shares upon exercise of a stock option distinguishable from the issuance of the option? The answer under California's Corporate Securities Law of 1968 may surprise some. Corporations Code Section 25017 adopts a unified view of...
As the new year begins, businesses of all sizes will have to contend with the federal Corporate Transparency Act. The CTA is part of the 1,482 page William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act For Fiscal Year 2021 which Congress...
In a recent post, Professor Ann Lipton noted a proposed charter amendment intended to address the so-called "Con Ed" problem. In Consol. Edison, Inc. v. Ne. Utilities, 426 F.3d 524 (2d Cir. 2005), the stockholders of Northeast Utilities sued...