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NOTE: Mr. Burt does not handle litigation of any kind. If you wish to sue someone, are being sued, or need to make a court filing of any kind, Mr. Burt cannot help you. You should not contact him for those services.
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Now that we are moving more and more into electronic records, can we dispense with stock certificates? Yes, we can, but for most closely held corporations, it may not be worthwhile to change to certificate-less stock. The failure to issue…
Read MoreThe Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the California Lawyers Association today published an e-bulletin, which I authored. The text follows: The legislature amended Corporations Code § 1601, which grants shareholders the right to inspect and copy corporate…
Read MoreWhen corporate insiders transferred to a new corporation corporate assets claimed to be worthless, the shareholders had a right to a remedy, even if the damages were unclear. In Meister v. Mensinger (2014) 230 Cal. App. 4th 381, Sesame Technologies, Inc., was…
Read MoreOn November 14, 2104, I conducted a webinar on “Drafting Buy-Sell Agreements–What the Forms Books Won’t Tell You.” The program was jointly sponsored by the Corporations Committee and the Partnerships and LLC Committee of the Business Law Section of the…
Read MoreIn Villari v. Mozilo (2012) 208 Cal. App. 4th 1470, the court held that under Delaware law a shareholder who was a plaintiff in a shareholder derivative action lost standing to maintain that action once a merger resulted in the…
Read MoreIn Reilly v. Greenwald & Hoffman, LLP (2011) 196 Cal. App. 4th 891, the court held that a minority shareholder could not bring a derivative action against the corporation’s outside counsel for misrepresentation, malpractice, or breach of contract. In March…
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