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Keith Bishop is Managing Partner and a Shareholder in the firm's Orange County office. He focuses his practice on federal and state securities laws (including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002), 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. His clients have included companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq 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 the author of a treatise on the corporate law of Nevada, Nevada Law of Corporations and Business Organizations and numerous articles on corporate and securities law issues. Mr. Bishop is a past co-chair of the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar and a member of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section. He has also served as Chairman of the Business and Corporate Law Section of the Orange County Bar Association and a member of the Administration of Justice Committee of the Orange County Bar Association. Mr. Bishop has also been an adjunct professor of law at Chapman University Law School.
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