California Corporate & Securities Law

John Jenkins at the The Mentor Blog wrote this morning about the Securities and Exchange Commission's relaxed approach to remedying unregistered initial coin offerings (aka ICOs). According to John, the SEC is allowing an unregistered ICO to remedy...

The California Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act mandates reporting of suspected financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult. Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 15630.1. Under the act, a "mandated reporter of suspected financial abuse...

California's Administrative Procedure Act requires that a state agency follow a rigorous notice and comment process when adopting a regulation.  Although the APA broadly defines "regulation", forms are excepted.  Gov't Code §11340.9(c).  This...

California's gender quota law took effect on January 1 of this year.  Cal. Stats. 2018, Ch. 954 (SB 826 (Jackson)).  By December 31, 2019, a publicly held domestic or foreign corporation whose principal executive offices, according to the...

Last month, California joined Hawaii, Nevada and Oklahoma in considering enactment of the Uniform Law Commission's Uniform Regulation of Virtual Currency Businesses Act.  California's bill, AB 1489, was introduced by Assembly Majority Leader Ian C....

Three years ago, I wrote about a constitutional challenge to a desist and refrain order issued under the California Corporate Securities Law and the California Finance Lenders Law (nka the California Financing Law).  In Shurnas v. Owen, 2016 U.S....

In 2013, Sanford Wadler, the General Counsel of Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., delivered a report to the company's audit committee. His report expressed his belief that the company had engaged in serious and prolonged violations of the Foreign Corrupt...

The California Commissioner of Business Oversight is require to prepare an annual report summarizing the data collected from issuers that were granted permits to offer and sell securities pursuant to Corporations Code § 25113(b). The Commissioner...