California Corporate & Securities Law

In George Orwell's famous satire of Stalin's Soviet Union, Animal Farm, the animals started out with seven commandments. The seventh commandment was "All Animals Are Equal". As time passed, three of the original commandments were modified and...

Recently, Senator Richard Blumenthal wrote a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission asking that the "Commission protect investors and America’s capital markets from a serious and imminent threat." According to the Senator, this isn't an...

As I mentioned yesterday, every holder of shares is entitled to a signed certificate pursuant to California Corporations Code Section 416(a) (unless the corporation a system for issuing, recording and transfering uncertificated shares pursuant to...

One fine morning in the middle of the Precession of the Equinoxes, a reader asked me a new fine question that he had never asked before. He asked, "What date should be placed on a stock certificate?"

Recently, I received a summons for jury service. This reminded me of Pericles, Wasps and Aristotle.

Last March, I wrote a couple of posts concerning the Nevada Supreme Court's opinion in In re Cay Clubs, 130 Nev. Adv. 14 (2014).  Joint Venturer May Be Partner By Estoppel and “Don’t tell me not to worry, and please don’t call me partner”. The...

The incognoscenti may not know it, but today is Nevada Day. On this date in 1864, Nevada joined the Union and helped support the reelection of Abraham Lincoln and the Thirteenth Amendment. Delaware did not - it joined New Jersey and Kentucky in...

In July 2011, a group of ten law professors filed a rulemaking petition with the Securities and Exchange Commission seeking adoption of a rule requiring disclosure of political spending by publicly traded companies.  In a post last month, two of the...

Adolf A. Berle, Jr. wrote Corporate Powers as Powers in Trust more than four score years ago, but Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster cited the article yesterday as if the Harvard Law Review had published it last week. Quadrant Structured Products Co.,...