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One Month to a More Effective Compliance Program with Boards – Day 14 - Boards and Doing Business in China
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One Month to a More Effective Compliance Program with Boards – Day 5 - OIG Guidance for Boards Regarding Compliance
Nonprofit Basics: Meeting Minutes Best Practices
One Month to a More Effective Compliance Program with Boards - Day 1 - Legal Requirements of the Board Regarding Compliance
Innovation in Compliance - Key Board Issues Going Forward with Christina Bresani
Compliance into the Weeds - McDonald’s and Duty of Corporate Officer Oversight
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Last week, Chromocell Therapeutics Corporation filed preliminary proxy materials that included a proposal to reincorporate in Nevada. Rather than convert, the company is proposing to effect the reincorporation by means of a...more
In a new article, professor of law Wendy Gerwick Couture aims for "a fuller understanding of Nevada corporate law, both substantively and theoretically, as compared with Delaware corporate law". For the title and them of her...more
I continue to be on the lookout for Delaware corporations that have made the decision to reincorporate in Nevada. Last Friday, Elevai Labs Inc. filed a preliminary information statement with the Securities and Exchange...more
In May, I took note of this Form 8-K filed by P.A.M. Transporation Services, Inc. announcing board approval of a plan to convert the company's state of incorporation from Delaware to Nevada. The company has now filed...more
I began writing about Nevada Corporate Law more than three decades ago with an article entitled "The Nevada Corporation: Is It A Good Bet?". 14 CEB California Business Law Reporter 259 (1992). In the ensuing decades, I have...more
Delaware practitioners and legal scholars are digesting the implications of SB 313 which adds a new Section 122(18) to the Delaware General Corporation. According to the bill's synopsis, this new provision...more
As the debate continues regarding DExit, I have been on the lookout for companies making the move from Delaware to Nevada. Recently, I came across this information statement filed by Viewbix Inc., a digital advertising...more
My last several posts have discussed the current debate on the phenomenon referred to as "DExit", which refers to Delaware corporations that choose to reincorporate in other states. In a recent article, Professor Bainbridge...more
In a recently released article, Professor Stephen Bainbridge tackles the question of just how real the DExit phenomenon might really be. Among other things, he responds to my argument that Nevada eschews Delaware law...more
Yesterday's post highlighted Professor Stephen Bainbridge's recently posted article, DExit Drivers: Is Delaware's Dominance Threatened? His article analyzes the reasons that companies give for leaving Delaware for other...more
A year ago, Phil Shawe, the Chief Executive Officer of TransPerfect, penned a piece for The Nevada Independent explaining the company's reincorporation from Delaware to Nevada...more
California's Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act provides "The law of the state . . . under which a foreign limited liability company is formed governs all of the following: The organization of the limited liability...more
I recently came across another publicly traded Delaware corporation with plans to reincorporate in Nevada. Interestingly, this corporation, Sonoma Pharmaceuticals, Inc., originally began as a California corporation and then...more
Earlier this week, I noted that the stockholders of Fidelity Financial Inc. failed to approve a proposal to convert the corporation from a Delaware to a Nevada corporation. The vote was hardly decisive because more...more
In news that should cheer hearts in Delaware, the stockholders of Fidelity National Financial, Inc. last week failed to approve a proposal to convert the corporation from a Delaware to a Nevada corporation. I characterize...more
Delaware's website boldly asserts "The DGCL [Delaware General Corporation Law] offers predictability and stability." I have somewhat waggishly observed, however, that you can read the DGCL cover to cover and still no very...more
Since the Delaware Court of Chancery’s January 2022 decision in In re MultiPlan Corp. Stockholders Litigation,1 plaintiffs in Delaware had enjoyed a long and unbroken string of motion to dismiss victories in suits alleging...more
In 2019, the Nevada legislature added a provision to the state's corporate law permitting the articles of incorporation or bylaws to require, to the extent not inconsistent with any applicable jurisdictional requirements and...more
Over the last ten years, we have seen a marked shift from the Delaware Chancery Court chipping away at corporate board member liability claims. In a number of seminal cases involving Boeing airplane crashes (In re the Boeing...more
Both Delaware and Nevada require corporations to indemnify certain persons against expenses (including attorneys' fees) to the extent that they have been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or...more
In a recent post, I took note of another Delaware corporation that had disclosed plans to convert to a Nevada corporation. The Form 8-K filed by this company included the following statement...more
The Delaware dam may not be bursting but there are signs that it is leaking. In an earlier post, I observed that despite all of the talk, I had not found many recent examples of publicly traded companies reincorporating in...more
In recent months, a conversation has emerged as to whether Delaware should remain the favored state of incorporation for business entities. Indeed, many of our clients have asked us whether they should remain in Delaware or...more
I recently addressed the question of whether the exchange of emails might constitute a corporate board meeting. Recently, Professor Stephen Bainbridge pointed out that he discussed this question more than two decades ago. ...more
In a lightning-fast response to the recent ruling in West Palm Beach Firefighters’ Pension Fund v. Moelis & Co., the Delaware State Bar Association’s Council of the Corporate Law Section has proposed an amendment to the...more