California Corporate & Securities Law

Note to readers:  This blog has been updated to correct and clarify the original posting.

A foreign corporation registering to transact intrastate business in California must disclose, among other things:

The California legislature convened over the weekend as the current biennium comes to a close today.  On Sunday afternoon, the Assembly Banking and Finance Committee heard the Senate amendments to AB 979, a bill that would impose quotas on the boards...

As has been widely reported, the Securities and Exchange Commission this week adopted amendments to Regulation S-K which it describes as modernizing "the description of business, legal proceedings, and risk factor disclosures that registrants are...

While there may be a myriad of differences between a physical store and a website, a California Court of Appeal ruled yesterday that corporeal is the equivalent of the incorporeal, at least when it comes to jurisdiction.  

Next Monday will mark the end of the California legislature's current session, meaning that any bill not passed by that date will die. Typically, the last few days of a legislative session are chaotic with many bills being amended at the eleventh...

Recently, I was involved in a discussion of legal opinions regarding issues of significant legal uncertainty. The 2005 Report of the erstwhile Corporations Committee of the equally erstwhile Business Law Section of the still existing State Bar of...

I have previously written about California Assembly Member Lorena Gonzalez's bill, AB 3075, that would would make successor employers liable for their predecessors' unpaid wage judgments. Last week, Assembly Member Gonzalez amended the bill to...

Here in California, the writ of mandamus may be referred to as a “writ of mandate”. Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 1084. In general, California recognizes two types of mandate proceedings – “ordinary mandate” and “administrative mandate”. Both types of...

Nine years ago, I wrote about business identity theft.  The problem has not gone away.  Earlier this week, California's Department of Business Oversight issued a warning about company that is impersonating itself as a licensed lender in order to...