California Corporate & Securities Law

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...

Sunder Energy, LLC recently sought to enforce a non-compete agreement against its former head of sales in the Delaware Court of Chancery.  Sunder Energy, LLC v. Jackson, 2023 WL 8166517. Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster denied Sunders' application...

It is sometimes said that California Corporations Code section 2116 "codifies" the internal affairs doctrine.  See, e.g.,  Drulias v. 1st Century Bancshares, Inc., 30 Cal. App. 5th 696, 705, 241 Cal. Rptr. 3d 843, 851 (2018). However, that proposition...

Tulane Law School Professor Ann M. Lipton at Tulane Law School begins her forthcoming, Inside Out (or, One State to Rule them All): New Challenges to the Internal Affairs Doctrine, by quoting Delaware Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster:

As a voice crying in the wilderness, I have for many years proclaimed that the internal affairs doctrine is not as all-encompassing as Delaware and its devotees would like to believe. The limitations on the internal affairs doctrine are particularly...

In October 2020, Professor Stephen Bainbridge posed this question of whether shareholder inspection rights are subject to the internal affairs doctrine.  His post followed Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster's ruling in Juul Labs, Inc. v. Grove, 2020...

Corporations Code Section 1601(a) unambiguously bestows on shareholders the right to inspect the accounting books, records, and minutes of proceedings of the shareholders and the board and committees of the board of any foreign corporation keeping...

In this recent post, UCLA Law School Professor Stephen Bainbridge discusses Vice Chancellor  J. Travis Laster's recent ruling that "[s]tockholder inspection rights are a core matter of internal corporate affairs." 2020 Del. Ch. LEXIS 264. He notes...

Michael Corleone's greatest fear was that he would never be able to escape his life as a mafioso ("Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"). California's greatest fear is that it will not be able to dictate corporate governance...