California Corporate & Securities Law

California's Corporate Securities Law of 1968 makes offers it unlawful for any person to offer or sell a security in any nonissuer transaction unless it is qualified or exempt (or not subject to) qualification. Cal. Corp. Code § 25130. Transaction...

The California Corporate Securities Law of 1968 declares it unlawful for any person to offer or sell in this state any security in an issuer, nonissuer, or reorganization transaction unless the sale has been qualified or is exempt or otherwise not...

Donna Morgan signed two agreements to acquire ownership interests in two Nevada limited liability companies.  The agreements contained identical choice-of-law provisions, contemplating that Nevada law would "govern the validity, construction,...

California Assembly Member Al Muratsuchi introduced a bill, AB 511, which would add a new transactional exemption to the qualification requirement of the California Corporate Securities Law of 1968. As introduced, the exemption would be available...

The United States federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction.  Therefore, it is not always possible to make a "federal case" out of claim, even when issues of federal law may be involved. 

Both the Securities Act of 1933 and the California Corporate Securities Law of 1968 define the term "security" by providing long and varied lists of financial instruments and contractual relationships.  Neither law mentions timeshare vacation points ...

The California Corporate Securities law requires qualification of three categories of transactions: issuer, recapitalization/reorganization transaction, and nonissuer. Cal. Corp. Code §§ 25110, 25120 & 25130. The second category includes "any change...

California's limited offering exemption (Cal. Corp. Code § 25102(f)) requires an issuer to file a notice of transaction with the Department of Business Oversight with 15 calendar days after the first first sale of the security in California. 10 CCR...

A recent decision by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe has attracted attention among bank finance lawyers by ruling that the sale of promissory notes to "a few hundred" investors did not involve the offer or sale of a security. Kirschner v....