California Corporate & Securities Law

In this recent post, I wrote about California's cooling off statute with respect to viatical and life settlement contracts.  Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed this complaint alleging a massive life settlement contract bonding...

In yesterday's post, I described how an approval voting system could be used to determine shareholder preferences.  The Borda count system is another system that also could provide more accurate information about the consensus opinion of shareholders.

In this post last week, I wrote about the Dodd-Frank Act's requirement that companies subject to the SEC's proxy rules include in their proxy statements a resolution regarding the frequency of shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation. I...

Section 951 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires companies that are subject to the SEC's proxy rules to include in their proxy statements "a separate resolution subject to shareholder vote" to determine whether a shareholder vote on executive compensation...

The California Constitution (Art. IV, § 12(a)) requires the Governor to submit a budget to the legislature within the first 10 days of each calendar year.  Newly elected Governor Jerry Brown did so on Monday.

California Corporations Code Section 25401 declares unlawful the sale or purchase of a security by means of a written or oral communication that includes an untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to...

The Commissioner of Corporations may issue desist and refrain orders under the Corporate Securities Law of 1968. Cal. Corp. Code § 25532. If the respondent wishes to contest the order, s/he must do so by filing a request for hearing within 30 days...

California Corporations Code § 1600 grants a shareholder or group of shareholders holding specified percentages of a corporation's outstanding voting shares the absolute right to inspect and copy the corporation's "record of shareholders' names and...

The Corporate Securities Law of 1968 does not provide for a general "cooling off" period in which a purchaser of securities may cancel the transaction for any reason. However, the Department of Corporations in 2000 sponsored legislation, SB 1837...