Currently, the California Corporations Code prohibits a California corporation from conducting a meeting of shareholders solely by electronic transmission by and to the corporation, electronic video screen communication, conference telephone, or...
Bill Would Allow Shareholders To Phone It In
Posted on January 18, 2023
California Enacts Temporary, Yet Urgent, Law Allowing Virtual Only Shareholder Meetings
Posted on March 30, 2022
Last year, the California legislature enacted AB 663 (Chen) in order to provide California corporations with greater flexibility to hold virtual-only meetings of shareholders. Among other things, AB 663 amended Corporations Code Section 600(e) to...
Bill Would Urgently Remove Limitation On Virtual Shareholder Meetings And Allow Utopian Meetings
Posted on March 09, 2022
The last sentence of California Corporations Code Section 600(e) imposes a significant limitation on the ability of California corporations to hold virtual-only meetings:
California And Virtual Annual Meetings
Posted on October 19, 2017
Seventeen years ago, Delaware amended Section 211 of the Delaware General Corporation Law to permit corporations to hold electronic meetings of stockholders. 72 Del. Laws, c. 343, §§ 7, 8. In the ensuing years, an increasing number of corporations...