California Corporate & Securities Law

Last August, Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske issued a Summary Order to Cease and Desist on Thomas Becker and Wellington Sports Club, LLC, Einstein Sports Advisory, Ltd., and Welscorp, Inc. The gist of Secretary of State's allegations is...

When disclosure is not mandated, companies must confront the question whether to disclose or not disclose. Some may hold that issuers minimize the risk of securities litigation by making early and voluntary disclosures. By doing so, they cabin a...

John Jenkins at TheCorporateCounsel.net writes this morning about the Securities and Exchange Commission's announcement that it has filed a civil complaint against nine defendants for hacking the EDGAR system.  The SEC's complaint alleges that these...

I recently covered liability under Sections 11 and 12 of the Securities Act of 1933 in the securities regulation course that I am teaching at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Thus, I was interested to read a recent ruling by U.S....

Last week, President Donald Trump intimated that he may pardon Martha Stewart who was famously convicted and served time in prison for obstruction of justice. Ms. Stewart's notorious conviction arose out of an insider trading investigation of her...

This post by John O'Brien for Legal Newsline is a reminder to securities issuers that they might want to review their prior offering documents before filing a lawsuit in which they make inconsistent allegations and disclose facts omitted from the...

Thomas Carlyle famously called economics, the "dismal science". Sometimes, the law can be equally disheartening. Imagine trying to explain to a client that a statement that the company is "on track" to meet its projections might be within the safe...

Corporations Code Section 25401 is California's basic securities antifraud statute: