I don't hear many securities lawyers talking about "ecosystems". Indeed, I think of the word as being more the province of environmental lawyers. The word itself is an amalgamation of two Greek words - οἶκος, meaning house, and σύστημα, meaning a...
Move Aside EPA, The SEC Is Now Regulating Ecosystems!
Posted on December 12, 2017
Condominiums And The California Corporate Securities Law
Posted on November 01, 2017
Some four years ago, I wrote about the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' holding in Salameh v. Tarsadia Hotel, 726 F.3d 1124 (9th Cir. 2013). For those readers who don't remember the post or the case, the Court of Appeals held that the plaintiffs had...
District Court Rules Plaintiff Failed To Plead Real Estate Investment Was A "Security"
Posted on April 27, 2017
Both the Securities Act of 1933 and the California Corporate Securities Law of 1968 provide similar, but not the same, definitions of a "security". See Making A List Of Securities And Checking It Twice. Although these lists are expansive, courts...