ICF International has released its seventh edition of Aviation and Aerospace M&A Quarterly – a publication highlighting merger and acquisition deals and trends in the aircraft, airlines, and aerospace sectors.

In the context of M&A transactions, an auction is a process by which multiple buyers simultaneously bid to acquire a target.

Probationary periods serve an important role in ensuring that employers hire the right person for the job, but what are an employer's legal obligations when terminating a probationary employee?

There are many rules and regulations that employers must follow to ensure workplace safety. The Ministry of Labour has just announced new rules relating to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act.

Employers will often have employees sign employment agreements after they start working.

A recent decision of the Superior Court of Justice in Ontario has granted payment in lieu of notice to a consultant who was found to be a dependent contractor.

The government's new School Boards Collective Bargaining Act, which passed last year, has become the subject of controversy.

In a recent decision, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario ("the Tribunal") decided in favour of two teenaged employees who were fired for refusing to work on a religious holiday.

Historically, it was well established at common law that the sale of a business severed the employment relationship between the business that was being sold and the employee.

recent case out of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia has confirmed that where a business is not sold as a going concern, an employee's years of service recognition resets, regardless of whether that employee takes on employment with the successor company.

The Northwest Territories (NWT) in Canada's north have released for public comment proposed Hydraulic Fracturing Filing Regulations under the NWT's Oil and Gas Operations Act.

The Yukon government has accepted all 21 recommendations made by a Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly Regarding the Rights and Benefits of Hydraulic Fracturing.

The Ontario Securities Commission recently published proposed OSC Rule 32-505 – Conditional Exemption from Registration for United States Broker-Dealers and Advisers Servicing U.S. Clients from Ontario.

The Government of Ontario announced on December 9, 2015 that it will introduce legislation to increase protections for consumers who use high-cost alternative financial services...

The Government of Ontario has announced that it plans to update the Credit Unions and Caisses Populaires Act to implement recommendations made in a recent report prepared by Laura Albanese, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Finance.

Following British Columbia, Ontario is the second province to launch a provincial nominee program through the federal government's new Express Entry.

Après avoir fait la manchette de propriété intellectuelle et de notre blogue, c'est le calme relatif pour la « mise en marche » du brevet unitaire européen.

Over the last few months, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a set of guidance documents that help clarify the state of patent office practice as it relates to patent subject matter eligibility...

Finally, the guidelines indicate that although BYOD programs can be part of an organization's cost reduction strategy, using EODs to carry out both personal and business functions may introduce privacy and security risks that could impact both personal and corporate information.

Recently, Spencer Lake, the Global Head of Capital Financing at HSBC, reported that China is positioned to overtake the United States in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) in the coming few years.