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You can’t always get what you want

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • May 14 2013

The recent Delaware ruling in In Ancestry.com Inc. Shareholder Litigation provides a cautionary tale relating to a target company developing

Challenges for state-owned enterprises arising from proposed amendments to the Investment Canada Act

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 9 2013

Last December, the Canadian government announced that the review threshold under the Investment Canada Act (Act) for investments by state-owned

Ignorance is not bliss: beware minimal due diligence

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 6 2013

The Quebec Court of Appeal's decision in Francoeur v. 4417186 Canada Inc., 2013 QCCA 191, provides a cautionary tale on the dangers of entering into

The spin on spin-offs (part 3)

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 1 2013

In our recent series on corporate-spin off transactions, we focused on why a company should consider a spin-off, and how the spin-off could be

The spin on spin-offs (part 2)

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • April 29 2013

In our last post, we outlined some of the reasons why corporate spin-offs are used. In this post, we address some of the most common methods used to

Financing in difficult times: spin-off transactions (part 2 of 2)

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 15 2013

In our last post, we outlined some of the reasons why corporate spin-offs are used in the mining and mineral resource sectors. In this post, we

The spin on spin-offs (Part 1 of 2)

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 25 2013

On March 6, 2013, Time Warner Inc. issued a press release announcing plans to implement, courtesy of a spin-off transaction, a "complete legal and

Financing in difficult times: spin-off transactions (part 1 of 2)

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 25 2013

It is not an easy time for mining companies looking to raise financing. With that stark reality in mind, our colleagues Gary Litwack, Roger Taplin

Proposed changes to early warning reporting system address market transparency and shareholder activism in Canada

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 15 2013

Under Canada's early warning reporting (EWR) system, investors holding 10 or more of a public company's voting securities must publicly report their

Defensive tactics the AMF alternative approach

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • March 15 2013

On March 14, 2013, the Autorité des marchés financiers has published a consultation paper regarding An Alternative Approach to Securities Regulators’