California Corporate & Securities Law

As 2024 closed and 2025 began, four additional publicly traded companies proposed reincorporating from Delaware into the "sweet promised land"* of Nevada.  These companies include:

I recently commented on the discussion of possible damage theories posited by Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster in Palkon v. Maffei, 311 A.3d 255 (Del. Ch. 2024). A commenter on my post noted that the Court discussed damages as an adequate remedy of...

In in a recent LinkedIn post, J. Travis Laster (not posting as Vice Chancellor of the Court of Chancery) noted the following:

In a lengthy post yesterday, Professor Stephen Bainbridge advanced the following argument:

Recently, I wrote about a proposal by The Trade Desk, Inc. to convert from a Delaware to a Nevada corporation.  Predictably, a stockholder challenged the proposed reincorporation.  Gunderson v. The Trade Desk, Inc., 2024 WL 462207 (Nov. 8, 2024). 

Gaxos.ai Inc. lists its corporate headquarters as Roseland, New Jersey, but like many companies it is incorporated in Delaware.  Last week, it joined several other companies that are proposing to reincorporate in Nevada.  In preliminary proxy materials

Although much attention of late has been devoted to proposals to reincorporate in Nevada from Delaware, not every corporation is swimming in the same direction.  Last May, Kintara Therapeutics, Inc., a Nevada corporation, filed a registration...

Last week, Chromocell Therapeutics Corporation filed preliminary proxy materials that included a proposal to reincorporate in Nevada.  Rather than convert, the company is proposing to effect the reincorporation by means of a merger with and into a...

I continue to be on the lookout for Delaware corporations that have made the decision to reincorporate in Nevada.  Last Friday, Elevai Labs Inc. filed a preliminary information statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission disclosing that its...