California Corporate & Securities Law

In Section 4.13 of  Bishop & Zucker on Nevada Corporations and Limited Liability Companies, we discuss who may be liable on pre-incorporation contracts.  In Hotel Last Frontier Corp., v. Universal Match Co., 358 P.2d 896 (Nev. 1961), the Nevada...

For more than thirty years, I've driven by, but never stopped at, the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Victorville, California. The museum eventually relocated to Missouri but reportedly did not survive for long. Despite this notable defection,...

Section 25018 of the California Corporations Code provides a definition of several of the better known federal securities laws:

Ten years ago, there was concern about so-called "expatriate corporations". These were corporations that incorporated in foreign jurisdictions to minimize their tax liability. In reaction to this phenomenon, the legislature added The California...

Lately, I've been reading Theodore C. Bestor's, Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World.  Thus, it is no surprise that my thoughts of late have been on piscatorial matters.

If you are in the business of making loans in California, there's a good chance that you need a license. Some lenders are licensed under the Real Estate Law while others are licensed under laws governing banks, credit unions or residential mortgage...

In 1999, the legislature enacted SB 105 (Burton) which obligates CalPERS and CalSTRS to support, whenever feasible, shareholder resolutions at domestic and international corporations in which those funds have invested that are designed to encourage,...

Corporations Code Section 25234 generally prohibits an investment adviser registered in California to be compensated on the basis of a share of capital gains. This prohibition is analogous to the prohibition found in Section 205(a)(1) of the...

All fees, reimbursements, assessments, and other money or amounts charged and collected by the Department are required to be deposited into the the State Corporations Fund. Cal. Gov't Code § 13978.6(b). The legislature created the fund to...