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Insider trading through deductive reasoning: Canada and the United States take different approaches

  • Davis LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • May 15 2013

The Ontario Securities Commission and a veteran investment banker, Richard Moore, recently reached a settlement agreement regarding claims by the OSC

Insider trading better safe than sorry

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 7 2013

A series of recent Alberta Securities Commission decisions recently underscored the inherent dangers of buying or selling securities of companies in

The U.S. Supreme Court questions fraud-on-the-market

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • March 18 2013

The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans & Trust Funds, No. 11-1085, 2013 WL 691001 (Feb. 27, 2013

Clock starts with the act of fraud: U.S. Supreme Court confirms five-year limitation period for government enforcement proceedings

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • March 18 2013

The US Supreme Court recently handed the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a very clear message: the act of fraud - not its discovery

Proof of materiality not required for certification of securities fraud class actions in the United States

  • Torys LLP
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  • Canada
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  • March 13 2013

On February 27, 2013, the United States Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision in Amgen Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust

The fairness of tracing: Ontario Court of Appeal considers methods of distributing remaining funds to victims of a Ponzi scheme

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • February 20 2013

In Boughner v. Greyhawk, the Ontario Court of Appeal recently considered different methods for determining how to fairly distribute comingled funds

Legal trends '13: a forecast of the year ahead - litigation & dispute resolution

  • Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
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  • Canada
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  • January 17 2013

There have been many developments in business litigation in 2012. Although it would be virtually impossible to distill them down to a single trend or

Former Nortel executives acquitted of fraud: can lessons be learned from the decision?

  • Davis LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • January 16 2013

The much-anticipated judgment in R v. Dunn, in which the former CEO, CFO, and Controller of Nortel Networks were prosecuted for fraud in association

First quarter 2012 U.S. legal and regulatory developments

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • April 20 2012

The following is a summary of significant U.S. legal and regulatory developments during the first quarter of 2012 of interest to Canadian companies and their advisors

This week in securities litigation (November 25, 2011)

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • Canada, Taiwan, USA
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  • November 25 2011

In recent enforcement cases the SEC obtained split results in an insider trading case, losing against one defendant but prevailing as to another