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Incorporating a company in Newfoundland and Labrador is a fairly easy and painless process: three simple online forms and a filing fee gets you an official certificate of incorporation ...

Proxy advisor Glass, Lewis & Co. recently released its 2018 Canadian Guidelines to Proxy Advice.

Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) has released its Canadian policy updates for the 2016 proxy season.

Proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. (Glass Lewis) recently released their Canadian proxy voting policy updates for the 2017 proxy season.

Proposed amendments to the Canada Business Corporations Act are generally aimed at improving shareholder democracy and participation and gender diversity on boards and in senior management positions.

Backdating options is, at best, indicative of poor governance and, at worst, illegal. The practice could result in director liability, executive terminations and a dramatic decrease in share price. It is vitally important for plan sponsors to understand how option backdating and springloading is done and to know what steps to take to ensure that companies they invest in do not engage in these activities.

La pandémie de COVID-19 a obligé les émetteurs à réexaminer une série de questions commerciales et opérationnelles, notamment leur philosophie de la rémunération et leur politique de rémunération des dirigeants.

Directors and officers have long since been subject to potential liability for environmental remediation under the Ontario Environmental Protection Act (EPA).

The Canadian Securities Administrators ("CSA") have announced major amendments (the "Amendments") to the Canadian take-over bid regime that are expected to come into force on May 9, 2016 throughout Canada.

Amendments to the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA), which initially received Royal Assent in 2018, and related regulations concerning the election of directors and the timing...

The debate about so-called "golden leash" arrangements has picked up again.

The CSA announced the impending implementation of new corporate governance disclosure rules aimed at increasing gender diversity on boards and in senior management positions.

Public corporations incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) will soon be required to report the diversity of their directors and senior management.

The Ontario Ministry of Government Services Consumer Protection and Service Modernization Act, 2006 has received royal assent and will come in to force on August 1, 2007.

Effective January 1, 2023, the Business Corporations Act (Ontario) (the "OBCA") was amended to require each private Ontario corporation (a "Corporation") to prepare and maintain a "transparency...

As of August 1, 2007, significant amendments to the OBCA have come into effect.

Plaintiffs in a claim for misrepresentation in a takeover bid circular in Ontario must choose between an action for rescission or an action for damages...

In 1051214 Ontario Limited v. Vivo Pizza Pasta Franchise Inc.,1 the defendant franchisor successfully brought a motion to strike a variety of claims made against the franchisor and/or its principal, Pino Trichilo.