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In the absence of specific provisions in a company’s bye-laws or a shareholders’ agreement, are any remedies available at law in the event of an unresolved dispute between shareholders resulting in deadlock?

Over the past nine months, McCarthy Tétrault and Watson Board Advisors have co-hosted a series of small group dinners in several major cities across Canada to meet with directors from a wide range of industries...

Federal corporations take notice – the federal government is amending the Canada Business Corporations Act ("CBCA") in an effort to increase transparency regarding the ownership of Canadian corporations.

Towards the end of last year, Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC (Glass Lewis), a leading governance and proxy voting firm, released its 2017 Proxy Paper Guidelines for Canada (the Guidelines) for the upcoming 2017 proxy season.

On April 7, 2021, the Government of Canada published Diversity of Boards of Directors and Senior Management of Federal Distributing Corporations.

On October 19, 2021, and after over a decade of delays, the provincial government finally replaced Ontario's Corporations Act (the "OCA") with the new Not-for-profit Corporations Act, 2010 (Ontario) (the "ONCA").

The following offers a high-level summary of some of the legal issues that organizations should consider when investing in the Western Canadian market.

Proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recently updated its Benchmark Proxy Voting Guidelines, which generally apply to shareholder meetings beginning in 2023 or 2024.

Did you know that your corporation is required to complete certain annual resolutions and filings every year?

In a decision released on November 15, 2016, the Alberta Court of Appeal allowed the appeal of Marquee Energy Ltd. from a prior decision of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta which had required...

Generally speaking, a corporation is a separate legal entity from its directors. This is a key difference between a corporation and a partnership or an unincorporated sole proprietorship.

In the third in our series of posts for new corporate directors, we look at how directors' and officers' (D&O) insurance can help to insulate you against personal legal liability.

In Mennillo v. Intramodal inc., the first oppression remedy case to reach the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) since BCE Inc. v. 1976 Debentureholders...

Information about possible future events or results of operations often appear in news releases, management’s discussion and analysis (MD&A), annual reports to shareholders and an array of other documents and oral statements made to analysts, shareholders and others.

The 2020 proxy season for distributing corporations will arrive quickly and therefore corporations do not have much time to prepare to meet these new disclosure requirements.

The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Canada released its Advisory: Changes to the Membership of the Board or Senior Management.

Approval rights of the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") have always been part of the process of listing securities to be issued in the context of prospectus offerings.

On March 25, 2015 the British Columbia government introduced Bill 24 in the provincial legislature, to update and modernize the governance of non-profit entities in British Columbia.