California Corporate & Securities Law

As California began the new year, it was suffering from a six-year drought.  Then came le deluge.  According to the Governor's office "These storms brought more rain than had been recorded in over 100 years and all in one winter season". On March 1,...

Given the importance of venture capital to California's economy, one might expect that state lawmakers would be keen to nurture the industry rather than enact laws that encourage venture capital companies to avoid the Golden State.   Last year, I ...

Both the legal and popular presses have been abuzz about the Supreme Court's overruling of the Chevron Doctrine.  Loper Bright Enterprisesv.Raimondo and Relentless Inc.v.Department of Commerce, 2024 WL 3208360 (June 28, 2024). According to my...

It is a peculiar hubris of California's legislators that they often presume to extend the application of the state's laws beyond its legal borders. Corporations Code Section 2115, for example, presumes to apply multiple provisions of the California...

California readers most likely are aware of the fact that California's nonprofit corporate law is triadic. Thus, it possible to organize a nonprofit corporation as a public benefit corporation, a mutual benefit corporation or religious corporation....

Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court held that when the Securities and Exchange Commission seeks civil penalties against a defendant for securities fraud, the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution entitles the defendant to a jury trial.  ...

The Statement of Information required pursuant to California Corporations Code Section 1502 is not required to be signed under penalty of perjury. However, the statute does require that the corporation (not the individual submitting the statement)...

More than a decade ago, I expressed concern when the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Koss Corporation and one its CEO, Mr. Koss, with filing materially false financial statements after the corporation had discovered that it had been the...

In Revlon, Inc. v. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc.,506 A.2d 173, 182 (1986), the Delaware Supreme Court famously held that when the sale of a corporation becomes inevitable, the board of directors' duty changed from the preservation of the...