Until I happened upon a working paper by Professors Martin Gelter and Lécia Vicente, I had not encountered the notion of abusing a corporation merely by choosing where to incorporate it. The authors describe abuse as follows:
"Abuse of law is...
United States District Court Judge Haywood S. Stirling, Jr. yesterday blocked a stockholder's attempt to use California's shareholder inspection statute to gain access to a corporation's "books and records and minutes of proceedings of the...
In the waning hours of the current session, the California legislature passed a bill that will impose gender quotas on publicly held domestic or foreign corporations whose principal executive offices, according to the corporation’s SEC 10-K form,...
Corporations Code Section 2115 is not an easy read. Fortunately, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye has provided a more digestible overview of the statute:
Section 2115 was enacted as part of a comprehensive revision of the...
Greb v. Diamond International, Pseudo foreign corporation, Section 2115, Choice of Law/Conflict of Law, internal affairs doctrine, Section 204(a)(10), section 309
Keith Paul Bishop
