California Corporate & Securities Law

James D.C. Barrall recently published a listing of ten consensuses on CEO pay ratio planning.  He begins with the following:

Yesterday's post chided Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC for its inconsistent positions on majority rule.  Today's post tackles a foolish inconsistency in the California Codes.  Section 25217(c) of the California Corporations Code provides:

Ralph Waldo Emerson famously derided a foolish consistency, famously writing in his essay, Self-Reliance:

An employment agreement is one thing and an operating agreement quite another.  In ITV Gurney Holding Inc. v. Gurney, Cal. Ct. Appeal Case No. B281694, the board of a limited liability company fired two employees who were also managers. The two...

Last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued this public statement warning about touting of securities by celebrities:

As a child, I was always puzzled when I saw a Grange Hall.  Was Grange a misspelling of "range"?  If not, what was a "grange"?  Only later did I learn that "grange" was derived from the Latin word, granum, meaning a seed. The word forms part of the...

This post on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation discusses Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster's recent decision in Wilkinson v. A. Schulman, Inc., 2017 Del. Ch. LEXIS 798. The case involved a stockholder's...

William & Mary Law Review recently published Professor Stephen Bainbridge's article, Corporate Directors in the United Kingdom.  The abstract begins with the following observation:

Recently, I happened across a summary of the "key features" of a corporation on the California Franchise Tax Board's website. Recognizing that it is always a challenge to summarize accurately complex legal matters, I do beg to differ with some of...