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Explore recent developments in Canadian tax law, corporate restructuring, and energy policy through expert legal analysis. From employee ownership trusts to carbon capture tax credits, discover how regulatory changes are shaping business strategy and compliance requirements across multiple sectors.

The Competition Bureau has announced that they have entered into a consent agreement with Agrium which addresses the Bureau’s concerns arising from Agrium’s proposed acquisition of the majority of Viterra Inc.’s retail agricultural business from Glencore International PLC.

On March 17, 2014, Canada’s Competition Bureau announced that it has approved the sale of certain assets of Agrium Inc. to U.S. farm cooperative CHS Inc.

The Competition Bureau has released a template for merger consent agreements, with the intention of providing more transparency and predictability to businesses engaged in the merger review process.

Emrys Davis and Christina Skinner write for Competition Law International in Volume 19, analyzing the implications of third-party review in competition law cases.

Canadian Tire affiliate FGL Sports’ acquisition of Pro Hockey Life Sporting Goods Inc. is unlikely to substantially lessen or prevent competition in the retail market for hockey equipment, the Competition Bureau has concluded.

Loblaw Companies Limited agreed to sell 18 retail stores and 9 pharmacies, as well as to abide by certain behavioural restrictions, in order to receive Competition Bureau approval of its acquisition of Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation. Loblaw entered into a consent agreement with the Bureau on March 21, following the Bureau’s review of the proposed acquisition.

The Louisiana Pacific Corporation has abandoned its plan to acquire Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd., as a result of a concerns raised by the Competition Bureau.

The Canadian Competition Bureau recently released a Technical Backgrounder explaining the reasoning behind its mid-March 2006 clearance of the acquisition of Maytag by Whirlpool.

The Competition Bureau has announced that the pre-merger notification transaction-size threshold for 2015 will increase to $86 million from the 2014 threshold of $82 million.

On February 9, 2018, the Competition Bureau announced the 2018 size of transaction pre-merger notification threshold under the Competition Act would increase to $92 million (the 2017 threshold was $88 million).

The proposed merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery continues to draw significant regulatory scrutiny around the world, including in Canada.

The Commissioner of Competition, Matthew Boswell, expanded on this theme during his annual address to the CBA Competition Section's fall conference in...

TVA Group’s proposed acquisition of Transcontinental’s consumer magazine portfolio was recently cleared by the Competition Bureau.

COVID-19 has caught the world off guard and the effect of the pandemic on businesses cannot be overemphasized.

How will the private equity industry change post-pandemic? In this episode, partners Guy Berman and Stefan Stauder give Munk Debates convener

Joseph Bellissimo discusses the options and benefits of using formal restructuring or insolvency proceedings to acquire the assets of a company that may be insolvent.