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Shifting sands in Canadian anti-bribery and trade control laws raise the stakes in M&A due diligence

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 31 2013

Recent developments in Canadian anti-corruption, economic sanctions, and export control laws are having a significant impact on the due diligence

Immigration issues in M&A transactions

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 27 2013

Given the complexities of a typical business acquisition, it is frequently the case that immigration issues slip well down the priority list for such

Can we talk?

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 23 2013

Your company is contemplating a potential transaction and you would like to share your project with one or more major shareholders before any public

You can’t always get what you want

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • May 14 2013

The recent Delaware ruling in In Ancestry.com Inc. Shareholder Litigation provides a cautionary tale relating to a target company developing

Challenges for state-owned enterprises arising from proposed amendments to the Investment Canada Act

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 9 2013

Last December, the Canadian government announced that the review threshold under the Investment Canada Act (Act) for investments by state-owned

Ignorance is not bliss: beware minimal due diligence

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 6 2013

The Quebec Court of Appeal's decision in Francoeur v. 4417186 Canada Inc., 2013 QCCA 191, provides a cautionary tale on the dangers of entering into

The spin on spin-offs (part 3)

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 1 2013

In our recent series on corporate-spin off transactions, we focused on why a company should consider a spin-off, and how the spin-off could be

The spin on spin-offs (part 2)

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 29 2013

In our last post, we outlined some of the reasons why corporate spin-offs are used. In this post, we address some of the most common methods used to

Financing in difficult times: spin-off transactions (part 2 of 2)

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 15 2013

In our last post, we outlined some of the reasons why corporate spin-offs are used in the mining and mineral resource sectors. In this post, we

The spin on spin-offs (Part 1 of 2)

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 25 2013

On March 6, 2013, Time Warner Inc. issued a press release announcing plans to implement, courtesy of a spin-off transaction, a "complete legal and