California Corporate & Securities Law

The California Department of Business Oversight announced last week that it has experienced a dramatic increase in consumer complaints, calls and inquiries following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.  According to the Department, consumer...

California recognizes two different torts involving interference with economic relations - interference with performance of a contract and interference with prospective economic advantage. Originally California courts treated these two torts as...

Section 16600 of the California Business & Professions Code provides that except for certain statutory exceptions "every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent...

California Assembly Member Lorena Gonzalez recently amended AB 3075 to impose successor liability for unpaid wages.  The bill would, among other things, add a new Section 200.3 to the California Labor Code:

The Business Roundtable attracted considerable attention recently when it renounced fealty to the interests of stakeholders rather than shareholders.  The problem of stakeholderism is brilliantly illustrated by the eponymous Bainbridge Hypothetical:

Earlier this month, I noted a California bill that would require publicly held corporations have a minimum number of "directors from underrepresented communities". The bill, AB 979 (Holden), originally defined "directors from underrepresented...

Yesterday, Liz Dunshee at The Proxy Season Blog took note of new support for the “Improving Corporate Diversity Through Diversity Act of 2019" from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business organizations. If enacted, the ICDTDA would, among...

You can read Delaware's General Corporation Law front to back and back to front and still know very little about Delaware corporate law. The reason is that most of the important rules are not found in statutes but in a myriad of court decisions. The...

California law requires that every California stock, agricultural cooperative and registered foreign corporation file a Statement of Information with the California Secretary of State. Initial statements must be filed within 90 days of registering...