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On August 23, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) released final rules under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the Advisers Act), focused on private fund disclosures and sponsor practices...

The financing of wind farms in North America is heavily dependent upon the tax incentives available to investors in each local jurisdiction.

On Sept. 19, 2024, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published a notice proposing amendments to modernize the continuous disclosure regime for investment funds...

This article focuses on cross-border issues that arise in connection with M&A transactions affecting U.S. shareholders of Canadian companies, Canadian shareholders of U.S. companies and transactions affecting both U.S. and Canadian companies in acquisitions of one by the other.

On July 8, 2008, new laws came into force in British Columbia that give investors the right to sue public companies, their directors and officers, and certain others when there is misleading information in a publicly disclosed document or a public oral statement, or when there is a failure to make timely disclosure of material changes in the affairs of a company.

The comment period on the Canadian Securities Administrators’ (CSA) proposed amendments to National Instrument 31-103 Registration Requirements, Exemptions and Ongoing Registrant Obligations to require additional "client relationship" disclosure ends on September 23, 2011.

The Canadian Securities Administrators ("CSA") are adopting a new National Instrument 55-104 Insider Reporting Requirements and Exemptions (the "New Instrument") and Companion Policy 55-104CP Insider Reporting Requirements and Exemptions (the "New Policy") (together, the "New Materials").

On July 29, 2026, the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) and the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published joint Staff Notice 81-339 – Industry Practices Relating to Foreign-Listed Exchange-Traded Funds (the Foreign ETF Notice).

Earlier this year, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) released CSA Staff Notice 81-334 ESG- Related Investment Fund Disclosure (the Staff Notice).

Global equity markets continue to roll along as acquisitionhungry companies look to build bigger businesses and private...

Canadian securities regulators have announced that they expect to implement on June 1, 2005 a national rule that will impose important new uniform continuous disclosure requirements on all listed and unlisted investment funds that are sold to retail investors.

Canada’s securities regulators have adopted a new regime for insider reporting. New National Instrument 55-104 and its companion policy are expected to come into effect on April 30, 2010.

Are you contemplating raising funds and remaining "private" without having to file documents with the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF)?

In 1985, the Investment Canada Act (“ICA”) was enacted, replacing the Foreign Investment Review Act. The enactment of the ICA ushered in a period, which continues to this day, in which foreign investment has been welcomed in all but a few protected sectors.

Pension plan mergers are clearly an area where both the law and the regulatory environment are in a state of flux.

The Securities Transfer Act, 2006 (the "STA") came into force in Ontario on January 1, 2007.

Securities laws, anti-money laundering and terrorist financing reporting regulations have, over the past few years, gone through a significant overhaul in Canada. At the same time, regulatory oversight and compliance audits have increased.

Although Canadian winters may be cold, the investment climate is almost always warm. There would be no other way for a country of 33 million people to maintain its relative wealth and G8 status without strategically and effectively engaging the world in the areas of trade and finance.