Although the mining industry’s struggles continue to persist, Canada maintained its dominant role in mining M&A activity in Q4 2014.

The Canadian dollar has taken a tumble in 2015 – dropping from approximately eighty-five cents to flirting around and even below eighty cents as compared to the American dollar.

July 2013, the government adopted the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (the MMPR), superseding the 2001 regulations on the same subject matter.

Canadian companies are becoming increasingly attractive to American and European companies as targets of foreign investment according to a recent article from the Lexpert Special Edition on Canada's Leading Corporate Lawyers.

As of October 17, 2014, the period for transitioning to the new Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act will expire.

M&A activity involving real estate investment trusts (REITs) is heating up in Canada and south of the border, according to a recent PWC report, "Emerging Trends in Real Estate: Global Outlook for 2015".

In recent years, the use of unlimited liability companies (ULC) has increased. ULCs are different from ordinary corporations because a ULC's shareholders are directly liable for the ULC's debts and liabilities.

In Canada, according to Lexpert's DealsWire, May of this year saw $8.1 billion of M&A transactions worth over $50 million.

In a perfect world, all issues as between a purchaser and a vendor of a business (whether assets or shares) are settled at the time of closing.

It follows that M&A activity in the Americas is well positioned for another strong year in 2016.

Norton Rose Fulbright's Canadian Special Situations Team ranks in the top 10 of global legal advisors for shareholder activist campaigns.

E&Y recently released its "first look" at its Global Technology M&A Report for the fourth quarter of 2015.

Data from the report shows that North American mid-market M&A activity for Q3 increased when compared to the same quarter of the previous year.

Mining and energy aren’t the only Canadian sectors showing promising signs in M&A activity of late.

Before going into the substance of my post, I wanted to introduce myself to the readership. I started at Norton Rose Fulbright in 2008 in Montreal and practiced as an associate until 2012. I left to lead the Employee Relations team for a major retailer in Canada and recently returned to the practice.

Provincial and territorial premiers first announced the Pan-Canadian Pricing Alliance (PCPA), an initiative aimed at facilitating multi-jurisdictional negotiations on prices of brand name drugs, back in the summer of 2010.

Of particular note is the proportion of overall M&A activity which is now represented by buyout-private equity deal structures.

According to the VMS study, most respondents expect the volume of corporate breakup transactions to increase over the next 12 months.

Generally, unless there is an applicable exemption, securities of a company cannot be distributed in Canada unless a prospectus has been filed.

Avec juillet arrivent les vacances, la canicule et ma pelouse qui se meurt de soif ! C’est aussi le moment de l’année où les cours en propriété intellectuelle IPIC-McGill ont lieu.