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In the process of enforcing a Judgement, debtors sometimes prove elusive and play hard to get, making the pursuit of what's rightfully yours extra difficult.

Canada is an attractive public market for emerging market issuers—issuers whose mind and management are largely outside of Canada and whose principal active operations are outside of Canada.

On June 21, 2012, the Canadian Securities Administrators (the "CSA") published Consultation Paper 25-401:

On January 29, the Government of Ontario released its consultation paper on regulating Alternative Financial Services (AFS)

On June 12, 2025, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) published final rules to facilitate the implementation of a new statutory framework for distributing amounts collected by the OSC under disgorgement orders to harmed investors.

Since the last financial crisis, stakeholders changed the way they approached issues with corporate liquidity. Markets in the United States and Europe are now undergoing a period of intense "liability management" activity...

The Ontario government has enacted amendments to the "Securities Act" (OSA) that provide a legislative framework for the regulation of derivatives, credit rating organizations and alternative trading systems.

The CSA's pilot project to allow eligible venture issuers to voluntarily adopt semi-annual financial reporting (SAR) is set to begin in March 2026(the SAR Pilot).

Executive compensation has been a topic of intense media scrutiny over the past several months.

On October 26, 2010, the Canadian OTC Derivatives Working Group (the OTCDWG) published a discussion paper entitled "Reform of Over-the-Counter Derivatives in Canada: Discussion Paper from the Canadian OTC Derivatives Working Group".

Canadian officials have been promoting embedded contingent capital as the best alternative for dealing with systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs), or banks that are "Too Big to Fail," as they have historically been referred to.

On December 22, 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada released its long-awaited decision regarding the federal government’s proposed Securities Act (the "Proposed Act"), which sought to create a federal regime for securities regulation in Canada.

On April 6, 2017, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) released Consultation Paper 51-404, Considerations for Reducing Regulatory Burden for Non-Investment Fund Reporting Issuers.

A number of Canadian banks, including Royal Bank, National Bank, Bank of Montreal and CIBC, have recently issued "limited recourse capital notes", or LRCNs, in public offerings...

The process of raising capital for a business venture, whether in the start-up or growth stage, is not easy. Identifying and attracting financial partners or sources of financing, meeting funding criteria laid down by lenders, and understanding new and creative financing methods, will allow you to better estimate your project’s capital requirements in the short term and plan for sustainable growth in the long term.

The Ontario Securities Commission’s decision in the Hudbay Minerals case in January 2009 marked the beginning of the end for Hudbay’s acquisition of Lundin Mining and the beginning of the end for the largely unfettered use of company stock as transaction currency in Canadian M&A deals.

When a company files for protection from its creditors, a supplier to that company who has not been paid may understandably not wish to continue to supply to the company.

In Weisdorf, Chief Justice Bowman held that accounting entries do not create reality, but instead, are intended to reflect reality. The Quebec Court applied that principle in Thinaddictives...