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Canadian companies will be harder to acquire under new poison pill proposals

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 14 2013

The Canadian Securities Administrators have released proposed new rules for shareholder rights plans (or “poison pills”). Under the CSA proposal

Canadian private equity markets: 2012 in review

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • February 12 2013

Canada is making a name for itself as a distinct North American market on the global investment scene. Despite global macroeconomic challenges, the

M&A: Torys' top trends for 2013 - Trend 3 - Shareholder Activism

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 3 2013

Shareholder activism is not new to Canada, but Pershing Square's 2012 success with CP Rail sent a clear message to Canadian boards: no widely held

M&A: Torys' top trends for 2013 - Trend 1 - International Transactions

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 3 2013

Canadian acquirors will focus on mitigating risk as outbound deals increase

M&A: Torys' top trends for 2013

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 3 2013

The year 2012 saw foreign investors compete for Canada's oil and gas assets, and Canadian investors pursue international transactions at record levels. In

M&A: Torys' top trends for 2013 - Trend 5 - Foreign Investment

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 3 2013

Foreign investors will change their investment strategies to compete for Canadian oil and gas assets

M&A: Torys' top trends for 2013 - Trend 2 - Hostile Bids

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • January 3 2013

Hostile bids will become more difficult as target boards "just say slow"

Canada: open for business but new rules for SOEs

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 10 2012

Late last week the Canadian government approved the closely observed acquisitions by CNOOC of Nexen and by Petronas of Progress Energy Resources

PetronasProgress Energy: Investment Canada continues to make headlines

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 29 2012

The reasons for the Canadian government’s recent rejection of the proposed acquisition of Progress Energy by Malaysia-based Petronas are unclear, but it now appears that there were procedural or timing differences that could not be resolved

Ontario regulator uses public interest jurisdiction to extend trading prohibition

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • August 9 2012

In its recent decision in Re Donald, the Ontario Securities Commission found that a person who traded securities of a reporting issuer while he knew about a potential acquisition of that company did not violate insider trading rules but did act contrary to the public interest

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