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On April 30, 2025, Governor Tim Walz signed H.F. No. 747 into law. H.F. No. 747 amends several provisions of the Minnesota Business Corporation Act (Chapter 302A of the Minnesota Statutes)....more
Amid continuing reports of corporations reincorporating from Delaware, including Simon Property Group reincorporating from Delaware to Indiana, the location of its headquarters, and Texas and Nevada recently amending their...more
Nevada advanced its quest to challenge Delaware as the go-to state for incorporation on May 30, 2025, when Gov. Joe Lombardo signed significant amendments to the Nevada Revised Statutes that govern corporations there....more
With a pair of bills signed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott on May 14, 2025, and May 20, 2025, Texas took a major step in positioning itself as the pro-business jurisdiction of choice for public and private companies. The...more
On May 19, 2025, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill No. 1057 (SB 1057) into law....more
Consider incorporating in the Buckeye State - the home of championship college football teams and sensible, business friendly corporate laws. Recent developments have called into question the prevailing wisdom of choosing...more
Nearly 13 years ago, I ruminated on the question of whether corporations are required to have bylaws. As far as California is concerned, there is no requirement that a corporation in fact have bylaws, although virtually all...more
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Dec. 3, 2024, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction suspending the government's enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its Implementing...more
Entities subject to CTA coverage should continue to prepare to report BOI to FINCEN. On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the...more
On December 3, 2024, an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted a nationwide injunction halting enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) and regulations enacted under...more
On December 3, 2024, in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. et al. v. Garland, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (the “Court”) issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against the government’s...more
This is a last in a series of client alerts and blog posts we’ve issued over the last year designed to inform you of the new Federal and Pennsylvania corporate reporting obligations....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 February of this year, California Assembly Member Jesse Gabriel introduced a bill making certain technical, nonsubstantive changes to a provision of the Penal Code concerning the removal of prison inmates for court...more
Last month, California State Senator Monique Limón introduced a bill, SB 1168, that would endow the California Secretary of State with the power to cancel the articles of a domestic corporation or the filing of a statement...more
California's Uniform Partnership Act of 1994 provides that a partner has a duty to refrain from competing with the partnership in the conduct of the partnership business "before the dissolution of the partnership". Cal....more
I recently came across Judge William Alsup's ruling in Carbon Crest, LLC v. Tencue Productions, LLC, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66676. However, the first two sentences of the ruling left me baffled...more
Washington State recently passed a law setting forth a new business entity type: Limited Cooperative Associations (LCA). This new statute will become effective July 28, 2019....more