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TCC denies the use of acquired losses

  • Thorsteinssons LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 13 2013

In NRT Technology Corp v. The Queen, 2012 TCC 420, a company (NRT) acquired a target company with substantial business losses (Losses). NRT

British Columbia Court of Appeal overturns TELUS shareholder meeting decision

  • Lawson Lundell LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 15 2012

On October 2, 2012, I blogged about court intervention in shareholder proxy contests in British Columbia

Doing business and raising capital in Canada

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • June 29 2012

We have prepared this Business Law Guide as a general overview of certain legal and business matters that may be relevant to a decision to establish or invest in a business in Canada

Will the battle for Fibrek impact the Canadian M&A landscape?

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 23 2012

The recent saga of Fibrek Inc. has been of great interest to those in the M&A community

Recent developments for the fourth quarter 2011

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • Canada, China, Denmark, European Union, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • March 15 2012

The end of the year and beginning of a new year is always a busy time for us, as it is for most of our clients

Courts extend privilege to non-lawyer deal team members

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 16 2011

Earlier this year, the Ontario Superior Court heard a motion that considered whether solicitorclient privilege extends to documents shared with non-lawyers who participated in structuring a complex commercial transaction

$1.26 billion damage award highlights gulf between Delaware and Canadian scrutiny of special committees

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • November 9 2011

In the recent Delaware decision of In Re Southern Peru Copper Corporation, Chancellor Strine awarded an eye-popping $1.26 billion in damages against a corporate controlling shareholder and its nominee directors in a related-party merger transaction, because the special committee’s efforts to secure a good deal for minority shareholders were found to be lacking

New directions in Canadian rights plans but which way?

  • Miller Thomson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • November 15 2010

On July 27, 2010, the British Columbia Securities Commission (“BCSC”) issued its full majority reasons for its April 2010 decision to cease-trade the Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. shareholder rights plan (the “SRP”) adopted in response to a hostile bid made by a group of companies led by Carl Icahn

Lessons for directors following the BCE Inc. decision

  • McMillan LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • November 9 2009

On December 19, 2008, the $52 billion saga of the proposed leveraged buyout of BCE Inc. by a private-equity consortium led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board came to an anti-climatic end when the Supreme Court of Canada issued unanimous reasons for its June 20 judgment approving the plan

Closely-held corporations and the valuation of voting shares

  • Dentons
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • June 26 2009

Ironically some welcome news relating to valuation principles for shareholders of many small closely-held corporations comes from the Supreme Court of Canada’s recently released reasons for its decision involving the then proposed $52 billion leveraged buy-out of publicly traded BCE Inc

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