Practice Under the California Securities Laws

Keith Paul Bishop worked with Mr. Finkle (former Consultant) since 2009 in reviewing the updates of Practice Under the California Securities Laws. Until recently, Mr. Bishop was a partner at Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP in Irvine, California. Mr. Bishop is a shareholder in the Irvine, California office of Buchalter Nemer. He focuses his practice on state and federal securities laws, corporate law, investment adviser and financial services regulation, and California administrative law. He regularly advises clients on compliance, licensing, regulatory and civil enforcement issues.

Mr. Bishop has represented companies in a wide range of corporate transactions, including mergers, tender offers, contested proxy and consent solicitations, public offerings, private placements, and purchase and sale of assets. He has also represented clients in connection with internal corporate investigations. His clients have included companies listed on the New York and Nasdaq Stock Exchanges as well as nonprofit and closely held businesses.

Mr. Bishop has held several significant California government positions including Commissioner of Corporations for the State of California; Deputy Secretary for Business Regulation and General Counsel to the California Business, Transportation & Housing Agency; Interim Savings and Loan Commissioner for the State of California. In 1991, Mr. Bishop was appointed by the Rules Committee of the California Senate to the California Senate Commission on Corporate Governance, Shareholder Rights and Securities Transactions. He is a former Co-Chairman of the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar and former Chairman of the Business and Corporate Law Section of the Orange County Bar Association. He has also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar and as the California liaison to the American Bar Association’s Committee on the State Regulation of Securities.

Mr. Bishop is an adjunct professor of law at Chapman University Law School where he has taught classes in corporate governance and commercial law.

Mr. Bishop received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern California and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University.