California Corporate & Securities Law

Six years ago, I wrote about the enactment of legislation, AB 2364 (Wagner) intended to make it easier to levy on bank accounts.  The law requires a bank or financial institution with more than nine branch offices within California to designate one...

I have written several posts on SB 528 (Hueso), a bill that I considered a potential "sleeper". In my parlance, a "sleeper" is a bill that doesn't attract much attention but results in big changes.  SB 528 would have chartered the California...

Yesterday, I wrote about legislation that would authorize local governments to form their own local or regional public banks.  Senator Ben Hueso has a somewhat different idea.  He has introduced a bill, SB 528, that would establish the California...

In April, I kvetched about numerous outdated references in the California Corporations Code.  For example, several provisions of the Code continue to refer to the "Internal Revenue Code of 1954" more than three decades after the enactment of the...