California Corporate & Securities Law

A corporation with an "active-pending termination" status can be returned to Active status by filing a Revocation of Election to Terminate, also known as a Revocation of Election to Wind Up and Dissolve, that meets the requirements of California...

Section 1800 of the California Corporations Code authorizes specified persons to file a complaint for involuntary dissolution of the corporation based on specified grounds. Section 2000 provides an "escape hatch" by which involuntary dissolution may...

The California Corporations Code governs the birth and death of a wide variety of entities, including corporations, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies. The provisions relating to each of these types of entities are generally the...

Under the California General Corporation Law a corporation which is dissolved nevertheless continues to exist for the purpose, among others, of prosecuting actions. Cal. Corp. Code § 2010(a). Further, no action to which a dissolved corporation is a...

My last several posts have for the most part concerned the liability of shareholders when a corporation voluntarily or involuntarily dissolves. Directors may also face liability under Section 316(a)(2) of the Corporations Code. That statute makes...

Today's post follows up on two prior posts addressing actions by creditors of dissolved corporations.  This post discusses the non-applicability of Chapter 5 of the California General Corporation Law to proceedings for winding up under Chapters 18 or...

Yesterday's  post observed that Chapter 5 of the California General Corporation Law does not apply to proceedings for winding up and dissolution of a California corporation under either Chapter 18 (involuntary dissolutions) or Chapter 19 (voluntary...

Chapter 5 of the California General Corporation Law imposes specific limitations on distributions to shareholders, as defined in Section 166. When a corporation is wound up and dissolved, whether the dissolution is involuntary under Chapter 18 or...

Several provisions of the California General Corporation Law provide for "special proceedings" in the Superior Court. One such provision is Section 1800 which allows certain persons to bring an action for the involuntary dissolution of the...