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SCC affirms decision ordering corporate director to compensate minority shareholder where director derived personal benefit from oppressive conduct.

Canadian MJDS companies and other foreign private issuers enjoy the benefit of various exemptions under U.S. securities laws.

On September 28, 2016, the Canadian federal government introduced Bill C-25: An Act to amend the Canada Business Corporations Act et al.

On April 6, 2020, the British Columbia government introduced several important changes to the transparency register rules for private companies.

In December 2012, the Toronto Stock Exchange adopted new rules for the election of directors requiring, in part, that shareholders elect directors individually on an annual basis and disclosure of the voting results.

Amid a highly public feud between Elon Musk and Delaware courts, Tesla Inc. TSLAQ (+1.02% increase), recently moved its corporate domicile from Delaware to Texas.

The British Columbia Supreme Court recently ordered a former Impark CEO to repay over $1.2 million in severance and to disgorge fees earned from and profits earned by his new company as a result of a breach of his fiduciary duties.

Directors have significant responsibilities, but so do those in many other jobs and roles. There is a big difference between the need to be vigilant and to take your role seriously, and the need to be worried about that role.

On an early Wednesday morning in the last week of November, a tweet from OpenAI confirmed that Sam Altman would be returning as CEO. This news follows shortly after OpenAI...

The Family and Friends Exemption will be available to all issuers, other than investment funds.

Each year, non-share capital corporations incorporated under the Canada Not-for-Profit Corporations Act (Canada) must either hold an annual membership meeting or, if the membership is small, ...

Recent research on the adoption of majority voting rules provides some insight on how corporate governance reforms are adopted and change company behaviour...

The Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act, 2010 ("ONCA") came into force on October 19, 2021. Not-for-profit corporations incorporated in Ontario will have a three year transition...

If King Charles II had the chance to do it all again, the Hudson Bay Company might have been a Benefit Corporation — and Canada might have been a very different country.

So, just how much environmental ‘hot water’ might directors and officers of your corporation find themselves in? This is not a rhetorical question.

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, directors and management teams of startup companies are faced with important decisions that could impact the long-term success of their companies.

The CSA have released CSA Consultation Paper 52-404 – Approach to Director and Audit Committee Member Independence and are inviting comments on the current approach to director independence...