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This spring, John Jenkins reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission staff now declines to declare effective a registration statement if the issuer does not provide a physical address...

A study by an international team of scholars has concluded that California's imposition of a gender quota on publicly held corporations with their principal executive offices in the state resulted in a ...

An "other constituency statute" permit, but do not require, boards of directors to consider non-shareholder interests (such as the interests of employees, the environment, et cetera) when making decisions.

Finally, as to JG Energy, Heritage argues Plaintiff cannot pursue a claim on its behalf, as JG Energy was engaged in intrastate business but never registered in California. Mot. at 6...

Because this is the second year of California's current legislative biennium, the legislature went into final recess on August 31. J.R. 51(b)(3). This does not mean, however, that the legislature

Shares can be held of record by multiple owners in a variety of ways, including as fiduciaries, members of a partnership, joint tenants, tenants in common, spouses as community property, tenants...

I recently came across Judge William Alsup's ruling in Carbon Crest, LLC v. Tencue Productions, LLC, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66676. However, the first two sentences of the ruling left me baffled...

California permits foreign and domestic corporations to file a statement of statement of "No Change" (Form SI 550NC) if the following three conditions are met...

The California legislature meets biennially. Cal. Const. Art. IV, § 3(a). Because this is an odd-numbered year, we are currently in the first year of the session.

California is famously hostile to covenants not to compete. In fact, Section 16600 of the California Business & Professions Code provides "Except as provided in this chapter, every contract

Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution prohibits a state from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts.

At the national level, with the new Biden administration, federal policies already have undergone a significant sea-change from those of the Trump administration.

Last Friday, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the appointment of Avyark "Avy" Mallik as General Counsel at the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.

In February, I wrote that Assembly Member Timothy S. Grayson was taking another run at enacting a Digital Financial Asset Law. His bill, AB 39, has steadily progressed and is now pending in the Senate.

As was widely noted last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued a lengthy executive order with respect to blockchain technology.

Yesterday, the California Supreme Court issued its opinion in Law Finance Group, LLC v. Key, 2023 WL 4168752. The Court's opinion answers the question of whether the deadline for seeking vacatur...

In this July post, I noted that " if conduct is not ongoing, it is impossible for someone to discontinue or desist". The California legislature, however, sees no such logical problem.