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As discussed in our post of February 10, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) recently published two sets of proposals relating to the registration of non-resident investment fund managers (IFMs).

Staff of the Compliance team at the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) recently published OSC Staff Notice 33-729 Marketing Practices of Investment Counsel/Portfolio Managers.

The Ontario Securities Commission (the OSC) recently released OSC Staff Notice 33-735 – "Sale of Exempt Securities to Non-Accredited Investors".

A flow-through share is a share which allows the issuing corporation to renounce resource deductions to shareholders who can use such deductions to offset their income. Under the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the Tax Act), the cost of a flow-through share to the shareholder is deemed to be nil.

Tout recours récursoire dans le cadre d'un recours collectif contre un débiteur solidaire libéré de la solidarité est irrecevable. C'est ce que confirme un arrêt récent de la Cour d'appel.

On October 1, 2010 the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) finalized amendments to National Instrument 31-103 "Registration Requirements and Exemptions", along with National Instrument 52-107 "Acceptable Accounting Principles and Auditing Standards".

On October 17, the federal government announced four "new measures to ensure that Canadians are treated fairly by their banks".

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) have announced amendments to National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101), the related companion policy and technical report form.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) calls for mandatory say-on-pay votes at all annual meetings of U.S. issuers and certain foreign issuers that are subject to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proxy rules.

When a witness is compelled to testify in an investigation conducted by the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), does his lawyer have the right to object to a question that is unrelated to the subject-matter of the investigation?

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned Arthur Andersen’s 2002 criminal conviction for obstructing justice by deliberately shredding documents pertaining to Enron.

Currently secured parties must still provide those copies, but legislation is on its way to relieve that administrative burden.

The Alberta PPSA Search Report you sent me for the proposed cross-country financing of our new borrower showed a number of registrations in favour of other existing secured ...

Two recent cases, Mazzarolo v. BMO Nesbitt Burns ltée and Gale v. ScotiaMcLeod, are more examples of case law that emerged from the high tech crash.

The Supreme Court of Canada released a landmark corporate disclosure ruling on October 12, 2007. In a unanimous decision, the Court held that where a prospectus (or amendment) contains no misrepresentations on the date it is filed, information amounting to material facts – but not material changes – that subsequently arise cannot support an action under s. 130(1) of the Ontario Securities Act (the "Act").

As July fast approaches, you have perhaps recently signed or are about to sign a promise of purchase for your future house.

CSA release revised staff notice regarding terrorist financing reporting obligations As reported in our post of July 30, 2010, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published CSA Staff Notice 31-317 (Revised) – Reporting Obligations Related to Terrorist Financing on July 30, 2010 (the Revised Notice), updating their initial release of April 16, 2010