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In OneMove Capital Corporation v Dye & Durham Limited, 2024 ONSC 5114 (OneMove), Justice Penny of the Commercial List division of the Ontario Superior Court concluded...

Board meetings play a crucial role in the success and governance of any organization. These gatherings bring together key decision-makers to discuss, strategize, and make important choices...

Over the past few years corporate ownership transparency requirements have been mandated across Canada to promote greater public accountability and combat financial crimes.

As part of recent legislative changes to improve corporate transparency and reinforce the protection of the public, businesses subject to the Act respecting the legal publicity of enterprises...

Canadian boards are increasingly likely to receive take-private proposals as private equity activity surges, with $26.5 billion deployed in 2025 and mega-deals dominating 2026. Directors must navigate complex fiduciary duties, regulatory requirements, and stakeholder interests while maintaining defensible processes that withstand scrutiny.

Shareholder activism is in the news daily: institutional investors publicly criticizing corporate governance and performance, hedge funds and other investors demanding change through proxy contests, and courts determining activists’ rights when shareholder relations become fractious.

The Government of Ontario has just announced that the ONCA will be coming into effect on October 19, 2021.

The Dolly Varden bid has been closely watched because it is the first decision to consider the use of a private placement by a target since the introduction of Canada's new take-over bid regime in May, 2016

Essentially, an RVO allows for the transfer of liabilities/unwanted assets out of the debtor companies, rather than transferring the assets out of the toxic debtor into a newly formed entity.

In 2009, we predicted that shareholder activism would increase in 2010. We saw this borne out.

In Wilson v. Alharayeri, 2017 SCC 39 [Alharayeri], the Supreme Court of Canada in a unanimous decision provides significant guidance as to when directors ought to be held personally liable...

Shareholder activism has become mainstream in Canada, as it has in the United States.

The Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") has adopted amendments to its director voting requirements.

Effective December 31, 2012, the Toronto Stock Exchange implemented rules that generally require TSX-listed issuers to provide for the election of directors individually and not by way of a slate, hold annual elections for all directors, make specified disclosures concerning majority voting for the election of directors, and forthwith release detailed disclosure of director election voting results.

The value of a company's board of directors can be defined through the kind of support, expertise, and insight they bring.

Effective as of June 13, 2019, the Canada Business Corporations Act (the "CBCA") was amended to require private CBCA corporations to track and record individual beneficial owners

The traditional role for officers of a company is to manage the day-to-day operation of the business. But do those officers also have a duty to "oversee" aspects...

The recent decision of the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench, Wisser v CEM International Management Consultants Ltd., 2022 ABQB 414, determined that the oppression remedy under the Alberta Business Corporations Act ("ABCA").