California Corporate & Securities Law

A new paper ostensibly connects the dots between failing to file a Form D, as required by Regulation D, and "patent trolls".   A "patent troll" is a company, typically that does not produce any product or provide any service, that purchase patents...

In a recent post on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, Jai Massari discusses a new paper that argues  fungible cryptoassets are not securities under existing U.S. federal securities laws while initial coin offerings (ICOs) and...

Rule 506(c) under the Securities Act of 1933 allows an issuer to solicit and generally advertise an offering exempt pursuant to Regulation D if:

In this post yesterday, John Jenkins took aim at issuer's that characterize themselves as "leading".  He notes that the SEC Staff has and continues to comment on such characterizations.  I think that in some cases these comments are a waste of time...

Many law firms will undoubtedly publish alerts on yesterday's decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pirani v. Slack Techs., 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 28319.   The court held that issue arose from  the New York Stock Exchange's rule allowing...

On Monday, the Nevada legislature commenced its 81^st session.   The legislature meets biennially in odd numbered years.  The Session is limited to 120 days.  Nev. Const. Art. 4, § 2.  Yesterday, Senator James Ohrenschall introduced SB 95 which would...

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Cyan Inc. v. Beaver Co. Employees Retirement Fund, 138 S. Ct. 1061 (2018) and the Delaware Supreme Court's subsequent holding Salzberg v. Sciabacucchi, 227 A.3d 102 (2020), many Delaware...

Anyone who has studied securities regulation has been exposed to the United States Supreme Court's decision in SEC v. W.J. Howey, 328 U.S. 293 (1946) establishing the definition of  "investment contract" under the Securities Act of 1933.  The...

On March 20, 2018, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund, reaffirming that a class action alleging only violations of the federal Securities Act of 1933 could be brought in...