California Corporate & Securities Law

As discussed in the two preceding posts, Nevada's Supreme Court last week decided to adopt New York's standard of review of special litigation committee recommendations to dismiss stockholder derivative suits.  In re Dish Network Derivative...

Derivative actions can be somewhat confusing. Although the entity is essentially the plaintiff, it is named as a defendant. Initially, one might question why must the corporation be named as a party? I can think of at least two reasons. First, the...

Some persons may be deemed to violate the Corporate Securities Law of 1968 even though they did not directly violate the law. Corporations Code Section 25403(a) provides that a person who with knowledge directly or indirectly controls and induces...

I think it is beyond peradventure that a state enjoys personal jurisdiction over corporations incorporated within that state. What about the personal jurisdiction over the corporation's directors and officers? That was the question addressed by U.S....