Michael Kilby and Lawson Hunter of our Competition & Foreign Investment Group recently co-authored an opinion piece in the Globe & Mail ..

Aird & Berlis LLP is pleased to present the March 2016 edition of Doing Business in Canada.

Mario's guest on this edition of the podcast is Shawn Neylan, a partner at Stikeman Elliott and a specialist in foreign investment issues of all types.

The Canadian Securities Administrators announced last week that eight of its members (the provincial regulators but for Newfoundland and PEI) signed a regulatory cooperation agreement with the China Insurance Regulatory Commission.

Most favored nation ("MFN") clauses in vertical agreements are essentially arrangements between buyers and sellers, pursuant to which one party guarantees that the other will receive the best price...

Bill C-38, the Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act, which was given first reading on April 26, 2012, contains a proposed amendment to the Investment Canada Act to allow the Industry Minister to publicly disclose the fact that he has sent a preliminary notice to a foreign investor that he is not satisfied that the foreign investor’s proposed investment is likely to be of net benefit to Canada.

The new Liberal cabinet and government sworn in today may signal the start of important developments around the scrutiny of foreign investment reviews under the Investment Canada Act.

On May 28, 2014 the Competition Bureau announced that it had reached a consent agreement with Transcontinental relating to its proposed acquisition of 74 community newspapers from Quebecor Media.

This report sets out Lex Mundi member firms' insights and predictions for 2021 in respect of mergers and acquisitions, including key concerns facing private company M&A practitioners, deal activity by market segment and sector, ...

The Federal Government has just provided notice that the general threshold for review under the Investment Canada Act for a direct acquisition of control of a Canadian business by WTO investors for 2008 will be C$295 million.

A direct acquisition of control of a Canadian business by a World Trade Organization investor (or a Canadian business owned by a WTO investor) generally is only reviewable under the Investment Canada Act in 2012 where the Canadian business has assets with a book value of more than $330 million.

This episode features a discussion involving Osler's Shuli Rodal, partner, Competition/Antitrust and Foreign Investment, and Isabelle Crew, associate, Litigation; Regulatory, Environmental, Indigenous and Land, ...

Designed for executives, legal counsel, and potential US and international investors, the Goodmans LLP Doing Business in Canada guide offers a practical overview of Canada's legal landscape and key business legislation.

Katherine Hensel, lead counsel to IRC, noted that the Inuvialuit child wellbeing law, Inuvialuit Qitunrariit Inuuniarnikkun Maligaksat, is set to come into force and effect in November, 2022...

In this informative on-demand webinar, we examine Canada's current foreign investment review process, the recent treatment of Chinese investment into Canada and the impact...

Bloomberg News reported yesterday that in an interview given on September 21, Canada's Prime Minister Harper confirmed that capital from China and other countries is welcome provided that acquisitions of Canadian businesses are "economic in nature and don’t have other strategic or political objectives".

The latest Federal Budget was introduced in Canadian parliament on March 22, 2017, with a focus on, among other things, science and innovation.

The last six months of 2012 saw the most significant political debate in Canada on foreign investment in a generation.

The Canadian-Australian Pension Funds Investment Initiative establishes a groundbreaking framework for cross-border pension fund investment between two of the world's most sophisticated pension markets. This analysis examines the policy barriers, regulatory considerations, and opportunities for deploying long-term infrastructure capital across both jurisdictions, including asset recycling strategies and sectoral dimensions.

The Canada Revenue Agency has announced a new priority system for advance income tax ruling requests, targeting investments of at least $1 billion in Canada. This initiative aims to accelerate the tax certainty process for major investors by reducing processing times and providing binding guidance on how specific Income Tax Act provisions apply to proposed transactions.