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Canada’s Expert Panel on Securities Regulation - Final Report

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 19 2009

The Expert Panel on Securities Regulation in Canada, appointed in February 2008 by Canada's Minister of Finance, published its Final Report and Recommendations Creating an Advantage in Global Capital Markets on January 12, 2009

Canada’s top court orders VIA Rail to make passenger cars accessible to wheelchair users at potentially huge cost

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 31 2007

In a recent landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a federal regulatory order that forces VIA Rail to spend tens of millions of dollars to provide better access to passengers in wheelchairs

Immigration considerations in establishing a commercial presence in Canada

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 31 2007

For companies wishing to set up commercial operations in Canada, one of the important steps that sometimes gets lost in the shuffle of creating corporations, picking a location and navigating through the maze of Canadian legal issues, is the issue of bringing in temporary foreign workers to help get the business running in the crucial first year of operation

Sabre rattling on supplemental retirement plans

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 31 2007

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has recently voiced displeasure with what it views as overly aggressive tax planning involving retirement compensation arrangements (RCAs

Nothing left to the imagination? Enhanced compensation disclosure proposed

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 31 2007

The Canadian Securities Administrators published proposals for enhanced executive compensation disclosure for Canadian public companies in March 2007

Use of shareholder rights plans in takeover bids

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 31 2007

The use of shareholder rights plans as a defensive measure against undesirable takeover bids is a well-established practice in Canada

Proposed amendments to standards of disclosure for oil and gas activities

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 31 2007

Oil and gas companies that are reporting issuers have specific reporting obligations for their various activities

Will the Canadian market adopt the use of go-shop provisions in M&A transactions?

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 31 2007

It has become quite common in negotiated acquisitions for boards of target companies to agree not to solicit other offers after signing the merger agreement (under ‘no-shop’ provisions), and to pay a ‘break fee’ to the initial bidder under certain specific circumstances, such as where the target’s board exercises its so-called ‘fiduciary out’ to support a competing superior bid

International tax implications of Canadian federal budget

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 31 2007

In March 2007, the Conservative government tabled its second federal budget

TSX amends rules on normal course issuer bids effective June 1, 2007

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • June 1 2007

The TSX published on April 27, 2007 a notice of amendments effective June 1, 2007 to its policy on normal course issuer bids ("NCIBs") and debt substantial issuer bids (the "Amendments"

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