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Shifting sands in Canadian anti-bribery and trade control laws raise the stakes in M&A due diligence

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 31 2013

Recent developments in Canadian anti-corruption, economic sanctions, and export control laws are having a significant impact on the due diligence

Directors' duties and Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act

  • McMillan LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 24 2013

As a result of renewed efforts to enforce Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act ("COFPA") and the most-recent proposed amendments to

The criminal employee: a conviction in the Queen of the North ferry disaster

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 21 2013

Canadian employers and employees are subject to unique and far-reaching Criminal Code provisions regarding negligence causing bodily injury or death

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

  • Davis LLP
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  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • May 15 2013

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

Budget bill would prohibit attempts to engage in fraudulent conduct under commodities legislation

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 14 2013

As we discussed in a recent post, Ontario's recently-proposed budget bill would amend the Securities Act to tighten up provisions respecting insider

Canada to strengthen its laws against bribery of foreign public officials

  • Dentons
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 10 2013

Mining and exploration companies with projects in developing nations should take note that an amendment to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (CFPOA

Insider trading better safe than sorry

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 7 2013

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

Piercing the corporate veil

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 7 2013

The Alberta Court of Appeal has recently released a decision that adds much needed clarity to when an officer or director of a corporation will be

Anti-corruption digest - April 2013

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • Canada, India, Indonesia, Poland, South Korea, Uganda, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • April 29 2013

On April 22, 2013, Ralph Lauren Corporation entered into non-prosecution agreements with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the United

BC Court of Appeal acknowledges independence of the Bar as a principle of fundamental justice

  • Lawson Lundell LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • April 23 2013

In October 2011 I wrote about the BC Supreme Court decision in Federation of Law Societies of Canada v. Canada (Attorney General), 2011 BCSC 1270 in