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If someone told my younger self that someday people would take photographs with their phones, I would have wondered where you would insert the film.* Today, the question would be "What is film?" When I headed the Department...more
As has been widely reported, the California Department of Financial Protection & Innovation announced that it has taken possession of another California chartered bank - First Republic Bank. This is the second California...more
Section 25102.5 of the California Corporations Code exempts from the issuer qualification requirement of the Corporate Securities Law of 1968 a "transaction" that is the sale of: (i) a series of notes secured directly by an...more
I started practicing law in the same year that California enacted a limited offering exemption for the offer and sale of securities in issuer transactions, Cal. Corp. Code § 25102(f). Before then, issuers had to rely on...more
California's blue sky law, the Corporate Securities Law of 1968, generally requires that offers and sales of securities be qualified unless the security or transaction is exempt or not subject to qualification. Most...more
In 1988, the California legislature enacted a unique fairness opinion requirement for certain "interested party" tender offers, including a share exchange tender offers (Section 183.5) or written proposals for a written a...more
In our Legislative Alert of October 13, 2020, we reported on the California legislation enacted in late September, Assembly Bill 1864, that created the new California Consumer Financial Protection Law (“CCFPL”), and we set...more