Golden State Private Placements

If you need a good summary of federal and state securities laws governing private offerings in California, Lee Petillon has written an excellent article for the 2010 Issue No. 2 of the Business Law NewsThe Business Law News is the official...

More About the Effectiveness of Section 413(a)

Yesterday, I wrote about the Compliance & Disclosure Interpretation ("C&DI") issued last week by the staff of the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance.  In the C&DI, the staff clearly takes the position that the exclusion of an investor's primary...

SOS Changes Document Certifications

Historically, the California Secretary of State has certified copies of filed documents by attaching a separate cover page.  Last week, the Secretary of State announced that effective July 23, 2010 her office would stamp the back of the last page of...

Life Settlement Contracts Are Securities in CA

Broc Romanek also mentions in his blog today that the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a task force report on life settlement contracts.  Among other things, the task force recommends that Congress amend the definition of "security" under...

What if There is No Deficiency?

Yesterday, Broc Romanek reported that the staff of the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance has issued a new Compliance & Disclosure Interpretation addressing Section 413(a) of the Dodd-Frank Act.  Section 413(a) requires the SEC to adjust the...

Shareholder Approval of Political Contributions – Coming Soon?

On June 22, 2010, I posted an item concerning AB 919 (Nava), a California bill that would require corporations to report political contributions to shareholders and make refunds to those shareholders who don't agree.  In today's Proxy Season Blog,...

“‘Tis Well Consented” Vel Non

On July 19, 2010, I discussed action by written consent of the board pursuant to Corporations Code Section 307.  The statute is remarkably silent on some key points.  For example, while the statute clearly requires that consents be in writing (see...

A Rara Avis Indeed, The Capital Access Company

More than a decade ago, the California legislature added the Capital Access Company Law to the Corporations Code, Stats. 1998, c. 668 (S.B. 2189).  The intent of the law was to take advantage of an exemption to the Investment Company Act of 1940...

Closing the Barn Door . . .

Yesterday, I wrote about Section 413 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("DF Act").  You can watch President Obama's explanation of Wall Street reform here