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The regulatory landscape for structured products in Canada continues to evolve with the Toronto Stock Exchange proposing new and tailored listing requirements yesterday for various types of structured entities and products.

Staff of the Canadian Securities Administrators in Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Northwest Territories published a notice yesterday setting out their concerns regarding the use of advertising that may attempt to promote an issuer's securities.

A Hearing Panel of the Prairie Regional Council issued its decision in the William Cormylo file, which found him guilty of two charges levied by MFDA Staff.

BLG and AUM Law have created this interactive tool to make it easier to find, understand and act on several important topics.

On October 17, 2012, the British Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Greg Clark, delivered a written statement to Parliament regarding the Wheatley Review of LIBOR.

On December 18, 2015, the U.S. Congress passed and President Obama signed into law major reforms to the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act contained in the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015.

Against the backdrop of complexities that the financial services industry is currently facing, what M&A opportunities are developing for investors in the sector?

Laurie Pawlitza gets a lot of starry-eyed clients in her office – they're often young couples who are moving in to their first home and come in asking for cohabitation agreements...

As we outlined in our September 2008 Alert entitled Impact of International Financial Reporting Standards on Canadian Registrants, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announced their views last fall that many registrants would be required to use International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) under the Accounting Standards Board’s (AcSB) definition of a publicly accountable enterprise.

The OSC released a notice reminding investment fund issuers that, where an auditor has not performed a review of an investment fund's interim financial report, s. 2.12 of NI 81-106 requires the report to be accompanied by a notice indicating that fact.

Management and auditor concerns about the significant costs of compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act have spurred the SEC and PCAOB to issue additional guidance on internal control audits.

Earlier this year, The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, announced that the Government will review the rules governing foreign acquisitions. It will also consider, among other things, Canada’s competition policy.

A key aspect of Canada’s consent procedure for settling matters with the Commissioner of Competition before the Competition Tribunal has come under attack.

On July 12, 2007, the federal government announced the creation of a Competition Policy Review Panel that will be chaired by Lynton "Red" Wilson.

Strategic mergers in Canada may soon face new rules when under review by the Competition Bureau. The Bureau recently announced that it is considering revisions to Canada’s Merger Enforcement Guidelines (MEGs).

On February 1, 2011, the Competition Bureau announced that the pre-merger notification transaction-size threshold will be increasing from $70 million to $73 million for 2011

As part of its 2013 Budget tabled in Parliament yesterday, the federal government has indicated its intention to develop a "comprehensive financial consumer code."