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Unanimous shareholders agreements (USAs) are an important mechanism for establishing governance arrangements among shareholders for private companies in Ontario...

On April 23, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announced a pause in their efforts to develop mandatory climate-related disclosure rules and amendments to existing diversity-related disclosure requirements.

The Federal Government has proposed a new regime for the handling of complaints by customers of banks.

On September 19, 2014, the Bureau de décision et de révision granted a request by the AMF for an administrative penalty of $9,000 against Jacques Gauthier.

On September 9, 2016, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") charged RPM International Inc. ("RPM") with failing to make proper disclosure.

Bill C-228, known as the "Pension Protection Act" (the PPA) received Royal Assent in April 2023 and is now law.

Do you know how much keeping former employees in your defined benefit plan costs?

Jana Steele recently co-authored the C.D. Howe Institute paper "Target Benefit Plans in Canada – An Innovation Worth Expanding".

The Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) Registered Plans Directorate (RPD) recently made two announcements that plan sponsors and administrators should be aware of: (i) a project to assess the compliance of DB plans; and (ii) a clarification of the requirements for applications to register a pension plan.

In response to perceived concerns about the lack of understanding of the risks associated with investments in derivatives, the FSCO has developed guidelines for pension plans investing in derivatives and similar financial instruments.

In 2007, the U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) created a furor in the investment and employee benefits worlds when it issued an appeals opinion finding that a private equity fund that owned at least 80% of a portfolio company could be liable for the portfolio company’s plan termination underfunding under Title IV of the U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

In response to Ontario’s new regime for dividing pensions on marriage breakdown, which permits the former spouse of a plan member to receive an immediate payment of his or her share of the member's pension and requires plan administrators to calculate the value of the pension, the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) has released draft versions of the prescribed forms that must be used in the pension division process.

The Ontario government announced today that it will introduce legislation next Spring to provide temporary solvency funding relief to pension plans, primarily through an extension of the solvency amortization period from five to 10 years with member or union consent.

On March 20th, the Quebec government introduced its 2012-2013 Budget.

An Ontario company was recently fined $250,000 and two of its directors were each ordered to serve 25 days in jail as a result of a workplace fatality.

On December 1, 2021, the Government of Québec adopted by Order in Council 1502-2021 the Regulation respecting the integration of low-carbon-intensity fuel content into gasoline and diesel fuel...

On September 18th, 2012, the federal government announced the proposed expansion of the Code of Conduct for the Credit and Debit Card Industry in Canada (the "Code") to apply to credit and debit network participants that provide point-of-sale payment services through mobile devices.