California Corporate & Securities Law

Both Delaware and Nevada require corporations to indemnify certain persons against expenses (including attorneys' fees) to the extent that they have been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding.  See DGCL §...

In a recent post, I took note of another Delaware corporation that had disclosed plans to convert to a Nevada corporation.  The Form 8-K filed by this company included the following statement:

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...

NRS 78.585 provides that dissolution does not impair any remedy or cause of action against a dissolved Nevada corporation or its directors, officers, or stockholders if it is  commenced within:

A great deal of attention, including in this blog, has been focused Delaware corporations reincorporating in Nevada and other states.  See, e.g., Reasons To Quit Delaware Are Gettin' Bigger Each Day and Are Delaware Corporations "Rolling Down Hill,...

In Palkon v. Maffei, 2024 WL 678204 (Del. Ch. Feb. 20, 2024), the plaintiffs sought to enjoin the proposed conversions of TripAdvisor, Inc. and  Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings, Inc. into Nevada.  As noted in this post, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster...

I have been following Nevada law since 1987 when it followed Delaware by enacting a statute allowing Nevada corporations to include an exculpation provision in their articles of incorporation. The original statute was an "opt-in" statute and unlike...

Over the last few months, I have been following the saga of the lawsuit challenging TripAdvisor's plan to change its corporate domicile from Delaware to Nevada.   The stockholders approved the proposed redomestication last spring, but the proposed...