California Corporate & Securities Law

Suppose you are selling a service with some success. You want to increase sales, but how? You could promote the value of your services, but some may disagree and others may be indifferent. A more certain solution would be to get the government to...

Sean McKessy, Chief, Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of the Whistleblower, Division of Enforcement discussed a recent split between the circuits this webcast broadcast last Thursday by TheCorporateCounsel.net. The split concerns whether...

The California legislature sits in a two-year session known as a biennium. The current session is the 2015-2016 session. The first year of the session ended on September 11, 2015. That was the last day for the legislature to pass bills. Joint Rule...

Bonnie Springs Ranch sits below towering and very picturesque Aztec Sandstone cliffs a few miles outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. After terminating a contract to sell some adjacent land, Bonnie Springs alleged that that buyer abused process by filing a...

Monday was the close of the comment period on the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed rules with respect to listing standards requiring recovery of erroneously paid incentive compensation.

Suppose that a corporation's bylaws includes the following two provisions:

Yesterday marked the close of the comment period on the SEC's proposed incentive compensation clawback rules.  You can read my comments here. The proposed rules are fundamentally flawed because the SEC failed to recognize that different bodies of law...

Today is the close of the comment period on the Securities and Exchange Commission's proposed rules under Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which added Section 10D to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934....

Occasionally, I'm asked whether it is possible to file a specific notice electronically using the California Department of Business Oversight's online portal.  To use this service, you must register online.  There are two registration options: Option...