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Secondary market civil liability arrives in Quebec

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 31 2007

Amendments to the Securities Act (Quebec) introduce secondary market civil liability regime similar to that of Ontario

Diligence helps combat fiscal fraud: law requires ID of clients, but be sure to be precise

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 8 2008

James Smith, Jim Smith and Jimmy Smith are all born on Aug. 27, 1962, and they are all engineers, but only one has been tried and found guilty of drug trafficking

Passport Phase II: how Ontario will fit into the multilateral system

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 31 2007

Canada moves towards implementing the next phase of the Passport System to further simplify securities regulation, despite the OSC’s lack of participation

Rules on disclosure of forward-looking information get their much awaited overhaul

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 31 2007

Amendments to National Instrument 51-102 Continuous Disclosure Obligations and consequential amendments to other instruments are intended to streamline regulations regarding forward-looking information and provide clarified expectations

TSX adopts amendments to Normal Course Issuer Bids and rules relating to Debt Substantial Issuer Bids policies

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 31 2007

Effective June 1, 2007, changes to the TSX Company Manual amended the policies on Normal Course Issuer Bids (NCIB) and Debt Substantial Issuer Bids (DSIB

Proposed changes to statement of executive compensation disclosure

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 31 2007

Proposed Form 51-102F6, Statement of Executive Compensation, is touted by the CSA as improving clarity and context regarding corporate compensation practices

Changes to long form prospectus rules will codify and expand on existing underwriting practices

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 31 2007

NI 41-101 will harmonize prospectus rules across the country

Canadian regulators adopt harmonized rules for takeover bids, issuer bids and special transactions affecting minority shareholders

  • Torys LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 14 2008

Canadian securities regulators have adopted new rules and a national policy on takeover bids and issuer bids that harmonize the bid requirements across the country

Process for designating stock exchanges

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 29 2008

The 2007 Federal Budget introduced changes regarding how stock exchanges are categorized under the Income Tax Act

Disclosure of derivative positions comes under renewed scrutiny

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • July 21 2008

Recent pronouncements by a court in the United States, as well as regulatory activity in the United Kingdom, have highlighted the issue of whether rules requiring disclosure of beneficial interests in securities of public companies should extend to economic interests in securities held through derivative contracts such as cash-settled total-return equity swaps (TRSs) and similar financial instruments