The British Columbia government has indicated an intention to bring forward a bill in the Spring 2015 sitting of the provincial legislature to implement society act reform in this province.

Bill-38, the Franchises Act (British Columbia) was introduced in the BC Legislature on October 5, 2015 and passed its third and final reading on October 20, 2015.

The tender offer will be conducted pursuant to Canadian statutory requirements.

The overall outlook for 2017 Canadian M&A activity remains moderately positive, despite the decrease in the number of Canadian companies sold in 2016.

April 21, 2015 was Federal Budget Day. While the Budget did not contain extensive charity-related measures, it did include several changes that will be important to the sector.

In the first five months of 2017, M&A deal activity in the freight and logistics industry remained relatively flat compared to 2016.

Jordana Sanft was featured in IPIC's Community Spotlight, which celebrates the people who have shaped the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada over its 100-year history.

To address this issue, the Bureau also required Parkland to sell nine of its gasoline contracts and divest some of its assets to a competitor, MacEwen Petroleum.

We have provided some detailed commentary in this blog recently concerning the introduction of a bill in the British Columbia Legislature to modernize and replace the existing non-profit governance legislation.

Previous blog posts have been posted about the new BC Societies Act, including a detailed review of this proposed legislation.

Valerie Mann discusses the importance of human dynamics in mergers and acquisitions in her Business in Vancouver column "People, corporate culture are fundamental to an M&A's success."

In this podcast, Partner Mark Morrison, one of the authors of the Global Compact Network Canada's Anti-Corruption Working Group eBook, discusses the process of an anti-corruption investigation and how data privacy and local laws come into play.

The regulators indicated that all trades are subject to applicable securities and derivatives legislation and specifically called out Multilateral Instrument 91-102 Prohibition of Binary Options, which prohibits a person from advertising, offering, selling or otherwise trading a binary option with a term of less than 30 days with or to an individual.

While activism remains robust in the Canadian market, we are seeing more board-related activist demands settled before a public proxy solicitation campaign by both sides.

March 22, 2016, was Federal Budget day. The Budget contains relatively few tax measures specific to charities and non-profit organizations.

On June 3, 2016, Susan Manwaring will be presenting at the Advanced Canadian Gift Planning Course on "Emerging Donor Issues" in Toronto.

SOS for Business - International Risk Assessment

Between Friends: New Directions In German-Canadian M&A.

Robert Hayhoe was unanimously appointed by the Canadian Bar Association's Charities and Not-for-Profit Law executive as the liaison to the American Bar Association's Tax-Exempt Section, on February 23, 2016.

David Tang and Andrew Valentine will be attending the not-for-profit section of American Bar Association Business Law meeting in Boston, MA – September 8-10, 2016.