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.

EPs are a risk management framework to identify, assess and manage environmental and social risks for financing projects.

If Victoria is to pursue an apartment code through its planning system, it could learn from the NSW review experience.

Join us on Thursday, April 30, 2015 for a web seminar on data protection due diligence.

Complying with multiple regimes can be a challenge for business and industry when activities extend across jurisdictions.

This land tax increase could wipe between $1 billion and $1.25 billion off the value of commercial property values.

Whether a smart contract can constitute a legally binding contract depends on the law of the contracting jurisdiction.

Shipping Law Insights provides commentary, addressing key client questions and topics of interest, to help manage risk.

The Government has released measures to introduce derivatives reporting and clearing arrangements for the OTC market.

Article contains a link to a video covering why there are fewer streaming transactions in Australia than in North America.

The author discusses big improvements in female partner numbers in law firms and strategies to drive positive change.

The most publicized proxy battle of 2013, Agrium Inc.’s showdown with activist US hedge fund Jana Partners, introduced the concept of the "golden leash" to the Canadian proxy scene.

On November 27, 2009 the Minister for Small Business Dr Craig Emerson announced the establishment of an expert panel to consider unconscionable conduct. The panel will provide advice to the Government by the end of January 2010 on some outstanding issues raised in recent parliamentary inquiries into the Franchising Code of Conduct and the provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA) that prohibit unconscionable conduct. In the specific context of franchising, the panel will be considering th

The threshold for a pre-closing net benefit review under the Investment Canada Act and the threshold for a pre-closing merger notification under the Competition Act have been increased for 2014.

The threshold for a pre-closing net benefit review under the Investment Canada Act and the threshold for a pre-closing merger notification under the Competition Act have been increased for 2015.

According to an Ernst and Young report released on August 24, 2015, the Canadian Mining Eye index experienced a 4% gain in Q2 2015, as compared to a 1% loss in Q1 2015.

Global M&A activity continued its surge in Q1 2015, marking another quarterly increase in deal volume on a trailing twelve month basis, continuing a streak of consecutive increases that began in the first quarter of 2014.

As was expected, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced on June 5 that it will maintain its crude oil production at 30 million barrels per day.

One of the first steps in an M&A transaction is the signing of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), also referred to as a confidentiality agreement.

Le Québec et l’Ontario poursuivent leur marche vers la modernisation de leur régime minier respectif.