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Conversion is not so easy, and so smooth a thing . . .

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
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  • USA
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  • June 12 2013

Entity conversions are a relatively new phenomena. The legislature first provided for conversion in 1999 when it enacted AB 197 (Ackerman), which

When officers must indemnify the corporation

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • June 7 2013

Much attention is focused on the power of corporations to indemnify corporate officers and other agents. In California, this is addressed by

Accountant’s defamatory report to audit committee held to be absolutely privileged

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 31 2013

Once upon a time, an independent accounting firm learned from a law enforcement source that its publicly traded client and two of its directors had

Corporations Code reaches contracts and conveyances by foreign corporations

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

Corporations Code Section 313 generally provides that in the absence of actual knowledge of lack of authority, a contract executed by a corporation

“If there be nothing new, but that which is hath been before . . .”

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 28 2013

The California General Corporation Law has imposes a single qualification to serve as a director - the person must be a "natural person". Cal. Corp

Bitcoin and the corporations code

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • 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