California Corporate & Securities Law

More than a decade ago, I expressed concern when the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Koss Corporation and one its CEO, Mr. Koss, with filing materially false financial statements after the corporation had discovered that it had been the...

Last year, the California legislature enacted two bills, SB 253 and SB 261 that purport to impose burdensome disclosure mandates on businesses. The legislature did so in spite of obvious constitutional infirmities. It was no surprise that the laws...

A recent paper by four law professors takes a look at risk factor disclosures in Form 10-Qs and 10-Ks filed by 3,000 firms from January 2020 through the end of 2023.  Stephen Choi, Mitu Gulati, Xuan Liu, and Adam Pritchard, Covid-19 Risk Factors and...

Readers may recall that I have penned several posts on the subject whether coal is a mineral for purposes of the Securities and Exchange Commission's resource extraction disclosure rules:

When the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to adopt a rule a rule requiring issuers to report day-to-day share repurchase data once a quarter and to disclose the reason why the issuer repurchased shares of its own stock, I submitted a ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday adopted new rules requiring registrants to disclose on Form 8-K any cybersecurity incident which they determine to be material. The new Item 1.05 of Form 8-K requires description of the material...

Yesterday, the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation announced that it had issued a desist and refrain order against Coinbase, Inc. The order alleges that Coinbase's staking rewards program involved the the offer and sale of...

The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday adopted amendments to its rules governing share repurchase disclosures.  The SEC first proposed changes to its rules in December 2021. The SEC twice reopened the comment period for different reasons in...

In several recent posts, I have discussed Covington & Burling LLPs opposition to an SEC subpoena demanding that the law firm "name names".  See SEC Suit AgainstCovington& Burling Threatens More Than Attorney-Client Privileged Information, SEC...