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On March 7, 2022, the British Columbia Minister of Finance introduced Bill 11-2022: Commercial Liens Act (the "New Act").

The decision in Douez v. Facebook, Inc., provides some comfort to online businesses that rely upon forum selection clauses in their online contracts.

Boilerplate clauses are standard clauses, phrases and concepts that appear in commercial agreements.

The plaintiff in this case was a supplier of ATMs and the defendant was a partnership that operated a convenience store.

What happens when a key asset of a target corporation is a cause of action? Can it be assigned to the purchaser in an asset purchase or to a "Newco" in a corporate restructuring?

Parties to contracts in Canada now have a good reason not to lie or act deceptively to their counterparties in performing their contractual obligations.

The Provincial Court of British Columbia dismissed the claims of a franchised business purchaser seeking to rely on purported non-competition provisions.

On December 18, 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") released its decision in C.M. Callow Inc v Tammy Zollinger[1] ("Callow"); this decision will impact contractors, ...

Generally, directors in Canada are mandated by statute to oversee the business and affairs of their respective corporations. With that mandate comes a variety...

The recent decision of the Court of Appeal for Ontario in FNF Enterprises Inc. v. Wag and Train Inc., 2023 ONCA 92 confirms that the oppression remedy in section 248 of the Business Corporations Act...

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially designated the outbreak of COVID-19, otherwise known as coronavirus, as a global pandemic. In recent weeks, this unforeseen global ...

The use of earnouts in M&A transactions has increased over the past decade, and the current economic climate could encourage further use of this financing mechanism.

This past Friday the Supreme Court of Canada released a rare decision touching upon a commercial contractual dispute. The decision, Owners, Strata Plan LMS 3905 v. Crystal Square Parking Corp.

Assuming the recent frothy sellers’ market continues into 2015, we expect to see more use of the locked box in the near future.

DSF's education lawyer Katelyn Bell successfully defended the parents of a three-year-old student against a claim for unpaid tuition. The pupil's parents were instead awarded $2,000 in damages...

Bill C-86, the Budget Implementation Act, 2018, No. 2 (the "Bill") is scheduled to come into force on June 13, 2019.

Forum selection clauses are frequently used in commercial contracts, especially in cases where the parties to the contracts are based in different jurisdictions.