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Bought deal failure lessons learned from the Stetson Weisel decision

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 26 2013

In mid-2008, Stetson Oil & Gas Ltd., a Calgary-based junior oil and gas exploration company that trades on the TSX Venture Exchange, hired underwriter

Common restrictive covenants in corporate transactions successfully challenged in the Ontario Court of Appeal

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 25 2013

Companies involved in M&A transactions should be aware of the Ontario Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Martin v. ConCreate USL Limited Partnership

Proposed amendments to Canada’s early warning reporting regime

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 15 2013

The Canadian Securities Administrators ("CSA") have published for comment proposed amendments to the early warning reporting regime in Canada

News flash - important developments affecting foreign investment in Canada

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 8 2012

The federal government today announced that it has approved CNOOC's acquisition of Nexen Inc. as well as Petronas' acquisition of Progress Energy Resources Corp. Both of these transactions involve proposed acquisitions of Canadian businesses by foreign state owned enterprises ("SOEs"

Chinese enterprises represent overlooked source of financing for Canadian mining juniors

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada, China
  • -
  • December 4 2012

In recent years, Canada’s resource sector has increasingly recognized the importance of China as a market for its natural resources, to the point where China is now Canada’s second-largest trading partner

Canadian government rejects (on an interim basis) Petronas' proposed acquisition of Progress Energy

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 23 2012

Just before midnight on Friday, October 18, Canada’s Industry Minister announced his interim conclusion that Petronas’ proposed C$6 billion acquisition of Progress Energy does not satisfy the “net benefit to Canada” test under the Investment Canada Act

Doing business in Canada

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • September 17 2012

Unlike the United States, Canada was not created by a unilateral declaration of independence from the colonial occupation of England

Competition Tribunal orders divestiture in contested merger proceedings

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • June 22 2012

CSS Corporation is the only operator of secure hazardous waste disposal landfills in northern Alberta and north-eastern British Columbia

Federal government to significantly increase foreign investment review threshold, require additional information and formality in notification and review forms

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • June 5 2012

On June 1, 2012 the government published regulations that would significantly change the general review threshold and disclosure requirements under the Investment Canada Act

Federal government announces transparency and enforcement-related amendments to Investment Canada Act

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 9 2012

On April 27, 2012, the federal government announced two proposed amendments to the Investment Canada Act, the legislation that regulates foreign investment in Canada