California Corporate & Securities Law

Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act added a new Section 13(p) to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Section 13(p) requires the SEC to promulgate disclosure and reporting regulations regarding the use of conflict minerals from the Democratic...

Have you ever noticed that your right hand and left hand are the same, but you can't superimpose one hand perfectly on top of the other? Your thumbs always end up on opposite sides. Your hands are "enantiomers", that is non-superposable mirror...

Regulations Proposed

If you're reading this blog, then you had a better Ides of March than Julius Caesar did in 44 B.C.E. 

Jaroslav Vanek is a professor emeritus in the Department of Economics at Cornell University.  He is recognized as a leading thinker on the subject of labor managed enterprises.  In fact, he wrote a seminal work on the subject in 1970 - The General...

Although Rule 14a-8 is a federal rule, its application often turns on state corporate law. In most cases, the state law in question is the Delaware General Corporation Law because companies subject to the SEC's proxy rules are most commonly...

As discussed in this posting from last October, the legislature enacted AB 1743 to require placement agents for funds and advisers seeking access to CalPERS or other California public retirement systems to register as lobbyists. Although I had...

The Secretary of State is sponsoring AB 657 to allow both foreign and domestic corporations to indicate that they would like to receive notification from the Secretary of State's office by email.

The Assembly Banking and Finance and the Senate Banking and Financial Institutions Committees will be holding an oversight hearing on March 23.  According to the Assembly Daily File, the purpose of the hearing is to consider "intial reactions,...