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New rights plan and defensive tactics proposals shift Canadian M&A landscape

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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Canada
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March 15 2013

A newly-proposed Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) rule on shareholder rights plans and an alternative proposal on defensive tactics from the

Quebec tribunal concludes Fibrek Inc. response to unsolicited bid went too far

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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Canada
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June 14 2012

The hostile bid for Fibrek Inc. (Fibrek) by Resolute Forest Products Inc. (formerly AbitibiBowater Inc.) (Resolute) which unfolded over the course of November, 2011 to May, 2012 and the decision of the Quebec Bureau de Decision et Revision (the Bureau) in relation to a subsequent white knight bid by Mercer International Inc. (Mercer) puts target company boards on alert about circumstances in which steps taken by them in the face of unsolicited take-over bids may be overturned by a securities tribunal exercising its public interest jurisdiction

Developments in Canadian poison pill jurisprudence

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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Canada
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January 19 2012

In a rather active year for hostile M&A activity in Canada, there were only two shareholder rights plan decisions

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New rights plan and defensive tactics proposals shift Canadian M&A landscape

Quebec tribunal concludes Fibrek Inc. response to unsolicited bid went too far

Developments in Canadian poison pill jurisprudence

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