408.110 Applicability; choice of law.
(1) The local law of the issuer's jurisdiction, as specified in sub. (4), governs:
(a) The validity of a security;
(b) The rights and duties of the issuer with respect to registration of transfer;
(c) The effectiveness of registration of transfer by the issuer;
(d) Whether the issuer owes any duties to an adverse claimant to a security; and
(e) Whether an adverse claim can be asserted against a person to whom transfer of a certificated or uncertificated security is registered or a person who obtains control of an uncertificated security.
(2) The local law of the securities intermediary's jurisdiction, as specified in sub. (5), governs:
(a) Acquisition of a security entitlement from the securities intermediary;
(b) The rights and duties of the securities intermediary and entitlement holder arising out of a security entitlement;
(c) Whether the securities intermediary owes any duties to an adverse claimant to a security entitlement; and
(d) Whether an adverse claim can be asserted against a person who acquires a security entitlement from the securities intermediary or a person who purchases a security entitlement or interest therein from an entitlement holder.
(3) The local law of the jurisdiction in which a security certificate is located at the time of delivery governs whether an adverse claim can be asserted against a person to whom the security certificate is delivered.
(4) In this section, “issuer's jurisdiction" means the jurisdiction under which the issuer of the security is organized or, if permitted by the law of that jurisdiction, the law of another jurisdiction specified by the issuer. An issuer organized under the law of this state may specify the law of another jurisdiction as the law governing the matters specified in sub. (1) (b) to (e).
(5) The following rules determine a “securities intermediary's jurisdiction" for purposes of this section:
(a) If an agreement between the securities intermediary and its entitlement holder governing the securities account expressly provides that a particular jurisdiction is the securities intermediary's jurisdiction for purposes of this subchapter, this chapter, or chs. 401 to 411, that jurisdiction is the securities intermediary's jurisdiction.
(b) If par. (a) does not apply and an agreement between the securities intermediary and its entitlement holder governing the securities account expressly provides that the agreement is governed by the law of a particular jurisdiction, that jurisdiction is the securities intermediary's jurisdiction.
(c) If neither par. (a) nor par. (b) applies and an agreement between the securities intermediary and its entitlement holder governing the securities account expressly provides that the securities account is maintained at an office in a particular jurisdiction, that jurisdiction is the securities intermediary's jurisdiction.
(d) If none of pars. (a) to (c) applies, the securities intermediary's jurisdiction is the jurisdiction in which the office, identified in an account statement as the office serving the entitlement holder's account, is located.
(e) If none of pars. (a) to (d) applies, the securities intermediary's jurisdiction is the jurisdiction in which the chief executive office of the securities intermediary is located.
(6) A securities intermediary's jurisdiction is not determined by the physical location of certificates representing financial assets, or by the jurisdiction in which is organized the issuer of the financial asset with respect to which an entitlement holder has a security entitlement, or by the location of facilities for data processing or other record keeping concerning the account.
History: 1997 a. 297; 2001 a. 10.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 408 - Uniform commercial code — investment securities.
408.104 - Acquisition of security or financial asset or interest therein.
408.105 - Notice of adverse claim.
408.107 - Whether endorsement, instruction or entitlement order is effective.
408.108 - Warranties in direct holding.
408.109 - Warranties in indirect holding.
408.110 - Applicability; choice of law.
408.111 - Clearing corporation rules.
408.112 - Creditor's legal process.
408.113 - Statute of frauds inapplicable.
408.114 - Evidentiary rules concerning certificated securities.
408.115 - Securities intermediary and others not liable to adverse claimant.
408.116 - Securities intermediary as purchaser for value.
408.202 - Issuer's responsibility and defenses; notice of defect or defense.
408.203 - Staleness as notice of defect or defense.
408.204 - Effect of issuer's restriction on transfer.
408.205 - Effect of unauthorized signature on security certificate.
408.206 - Completion or alteration of security certificate.
408.207 - Rights and duties of issuer with respect to registered owners.
408.208 - Effect of signature of authenticating trustee, registrar or transfer agent.
408.302 - Rights of purchaser.
408.303 - Protected purchaser.
408.306 - Effect of guaranteeing signature, endorsement or instruction.
408.307 - Purchaser's right to requisites for registration of transfer.
408.401 - Duty of issuer to register transfer.
408.402 - Assurance that endorsement or instruction is effective.
408.403 - Demand that issuer not register transfer.
408.404 - Wrongful registration.
408.405 - Replacement of lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken security certificate.
408.406 - Obligation to notify issuer of lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken security certificate.
408.407 - Authenticating trustee, transfer agent and registrar.
408.501 - Securities account; acquisition of security entitlement from securities intermediary.
408.502 - Assertion of adverse claim against entitlement holder.
408.504 - Duty of securities intermediary to maintain financial asset.
408.505 - Duty of securities intermediary with respect to payments and distributions.
408.506 - Duty of securities intermediary to exercise rights as directed by entitlement holder.
408.507 - Duty of securities intermediary to comply with entitlement order.
408.510 - Rights of purchaser of security entitlement from entitlement holder.
408.511 - Priority among security interests and entitlement holders.