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BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

This week at the SCC

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
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  • December 2 2012

The Supreme Court of Canada released one decision this week of interest to Canadian businesses and professions

Doing business and raising capital in Canada

  • Torys LLP
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  • Canada
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  • 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

Recent developments for the fourth quarter 2011

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

The costly consequences of inadequate supervision

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
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  • Canada
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  • June 7 2011

A recent decision by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Straus Estate v. Decaire, 2011 ONSC 1157 (“Straus”) serves to reiterate the importance of ensuring that compliance policies and proper training of sales representatives are practiced at the branch level

Imperial Tobacco redux an unwelcomed revisit to the deductibility of payments to option holders for surrendering stock options in the context of corporate reorganizations and acquisitions

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • February 28 2011

Canada Revenue Agency ("CRA") generally permits the deduction of payments made by an employer to employees who surrender their options under an employee stock option plan ("ESOP") in the ordinary course of business

Brokers’ report

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • November 12 2010

The Alberta Court of Appeal has released an important decision which greatly clarifies the rights and obligations that exist under a contract of employment between an investment dealer and an investment advisor

Soost v. Merrill Lynch Canada Inc

  • Davis LLP
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  • Canada
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  • February 3 2010

The plaintiff Soost was summarily dismissed from his position as a financial advisor by the defendant Merrill Lynch Canada Inc

Brokers’ report

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • January 5 2010

On October 13, 2009, Justice Scott Brooker of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta released his written reasons for decision in the case of Soost v. Merrill Lynch Canada Inc

Canada’s Supreme Court defines departing employees duties

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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  • Canada
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  • October 20 2008

On October 9, 2008, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) issued an important decision, in RBC Dominion Securities Inc. v. Merrill Lynch Canada Inc., 2008 SCC 54, addressing the duties owed by a producing branch manager and investment advisor(s) when they leave one brokerage house to join another