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Bitcoin and the corporations code

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 20 2013

I've been seeing an increasing number of references to Bitcoin and other forms of virtual or crypto currencies in the news. For example, Jeffrey

If you’re relying on the signature of two officers, you may want to think again

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 17 2013

It is widely assumed that if a contract, note or other instrument is signed by a corporation's president and its secretary, it will not be

But wait, California may require even more in annual reports to shareholders

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2013

Yesterday's blog discussed California's requirement that many domestic and foreign corporations send financial statements to their shareholders. If a

California requires many foreign corporations to send annual financial statements to shareholders

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2013

California is a net exporter of corporate charters, but it remains home to many corporations. As a result, the California Corporations Code has a

Legislature acts to forestall business filings Götterdämmerung

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 9 2013

Anyone who has submitted a business filing to the California Secretary of State's office know that a serious problem exists. At present, the

An exemption for foreign subsidiary formation

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 6 2013

The formation of a subsidiary under the laws of a foreign country may not seem to implicate the California Corporate Securities Law. Yet, an offer

Bill aims to make foreign nonqualified LLC contracts voidable

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 6 2013

As discussed in prior posts, "transacting intrastate business" is not the same as "doing business". See You may Be Doing Business in California Even

No directors, no officers, no employees and no agents now what?

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 3 2013

Occasionally, a corporation may find itself with no directors and no management. Yet, the corporation does not cease to exist. One might wonder what

Before this corporation was formed, this contract knew it

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2013

In Section 4.13 of Bishop & Zucker on Nevada Corporations and Limited Liability Companies, we discuss who may be liable on pre-incorporation

Why incorporation may be unconstitutional

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 29 2013

Section 25018 of the California Corporations Code provides a definition of several of the better known federal securities laws: "Securities Act of