California Corporate & Securities Law

As the debate continues regarding DExit, I have been on the lookout for companies making the move from Delaware to Nevada.  Recently, I came across this information statement filed by Viewbix Inc., a digital advertising company headquartered in Ramat...

The Delaware dam may not be bursting but there are signs that it is leaking.  In an earlier post, I observed that despite all of the talk, I had not found many recent examples of publicly traded companies reincorporating in Nevada. Recently, I...

For Delaware, are the good times really over for good? 

Last week, I wrote about a recent Delaware case involving an attempt to enforce a non-compete provision in a limited liability company agreement.  Sunder Energy, LLC v. Jackson,2023 WL 8166517. The case was brought in the Delaware Court of Chancery...

In yesterday's post, I posited that Delaware does and doesn't define "officer".   For the proposition that Delaware defines the term, I cited Delaware's deemed consent statute - 10 Del. Code § 3114. That statute, however, only appears to furnish a...

UCLA Law School Professor Stephen Bainbridge recently critiqued the Nevada Supreme Court's decision to follow Auerbach v. Bennett, 419 N.Y.S.2d 920 (1979) rather than Delaware's Zapata Corp. v. Maldonado, 430 A.2d 779 (Del. 1981).  He concludes:

Nevada law endows a board of directors "full control over the affairs of the corporation".  NRS 78.120(1).  This control is subject only to such limitations as may be provided by NRS chapter 7, or the articles of incorporation of the corporation.  Id.  ...