California Corporate & Securities Law

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 News.  The Business Law News is the official...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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.