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On April 29, 2020, the Competition Bureau (Bureau) released a statement outlining its approach to analyzing mergers that involve a "failing firm."

Further to our previous insight on the decision of Delta 9 Cannabis Inc (Re), 2025 ABKB 52 (Delta 9), the Court of King's Bench of Alberta...

On January 17, 2020, Justice Romaine of the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench found that the Alberta Securities Commission's (the "ASC") administrative penalties against Theodor Hennig

All businesses know that one key to profitability is risk management. Particularly in such industries as oil and natural gas, eligible financial contracts have emerged as an invaluable tool to hedge the risk associated with volatile foreign currency exchange, interest rates and commodity prices.

The common law remedy of distress has become an increasingly difficult remedy for landlords to exercise in response to a tenant default.

The Canadian Parliament has enacted significant changes to federal insolvency legislation, elevating the priority that must be provided to fund the deficit of a defined benefit pension...

Set forth below is a summary of the key observations and analysis made in the Bulletin, as well as an explanation of certain of the enforcement mechanisms referenced therein.

In July 2020, the Alberta government introduced a new Liability Management Framework (the Framework) to address the growing inventory of inactive and orphaned well sites in the province.

On November 9, 2017, the SCC granted the leave application filed by the Alberta Energy Regulator and the Orphan Well Association in Orphan Well Association, et al v. Grant Thornton Limited, et al, ...

​On June 20, 2016, in reaction to the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench Redwater Energy Corporation (Re), 2016 ABQB 278 decision the AER issued Bulletin 2016-16 Licensee Eligibility - Alberta Energy Regulator Measures to Limit Environmental Impacts Pending Regulatory Changes to Address Redwater.

The Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") in Orphan Well Association v. Grant Thornton Ltd., 2019 SCC 5 ("Orphan") ruled that trustees in bankruptcy and insolvency cannot walk away from the environmental

On January 31, 2018, the Supreme Court of Canada released its much anticipated decision, Orphan Well Association v. Grant Thornton Ltd., 2019 SCC 5.

In a recent case involving Mantle Materials Group, Ltd. (2023 ABKB 488, "Mantle")[1], the intersection of environmental obligations and insolvency law in Canada has again come into sharp focus.

In Pride Group Holdings Inc. et al., 2026 ONSC 4700 (“Pride Group”), the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (the “Court”) held that securitization parties whose assets were expressly excluded from the debtor’s “Property” under a CCAA proceeding could not be compelled to contribute additional funds toward the debtor’s restructuring costs, beyond any amounts already paid by them. While the decision is currently under appeal, it nonetheless provides important guidance to market participants.

In Canada v. Canada North Group Inc., 2019 ABCA 314, the Court of Appeal of Alberta upheld the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta, which held that the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act ...

In the context of corporate debt, 'liability management' refers to a company taking steps to manage its existing debt obligations. This often involves a combination of one or more open market repurchases...

Section 9(1)(d) of The Saskatchewan Farm Security Act ("SFSA") prohibits creditors from commencing an action against farm land without first obtaining an order of the Court.