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Two significant SOE bids approved: Canada issues policy statement and revised SOE Guidelines

  • Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
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  • Canada
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  • December 7 2012

The Canadian government released its Policy Statement and Revised Guidelines for Investments by State-Owned Enterprises on Friday, December 7, 2012, clarifying the foreign investment review process in Canada and signalling a shift in how investments by foreign stateowned enterprises will be reviewed under the Investment Canada Act

Doing business in Canada

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • September 17 2012

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

Court urges business transaction exemption for PIPEDA

  • Dentons
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  • Canada
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  • May 8 2012

One business wants to buy the assets of another business

Recent developments for the fourth quarter 2011

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Canada, China, Denmark, European Union, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 15 2012

The end of the year and beginning of a new year is always a busy time for us, as it is for most of our clients

High-tech giants’ appetite for patents may create hurdles for innovative startups

  • Blaney McMurtry LLP
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  • Canada
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  • September 12 2011

The multi-billion-dollar patent purchases during the last several months involving large high-tech companies illustrates the difficulties that small start-up companies potentially face when entering the marketplace with a new technology

Proposed amendments to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act: relief is on the way for M&A transactions

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • August 23 2010

The disclosure of information regarding current employees in transaction documents and schedules and the conducting of employee-related due diligence in M&A deals in Canada have been historically hampered by uncertainty in privacy legislation

GPLv3 and tech M&A

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada, Global
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  • October 31 2009

It has been a little more than two years since the Free Software Foundation updated the GNU General Public License with the release of GPLv3 in June 2007

Privacy issues in mergers and acquisitions - Part Two

  • McMillan LLP
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  • Canada
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  • October 2 2008

The introduction of privacy legislation in Canada necessitates changes in the way that purchasers and their legal counsel approach business transactions and the focus of due diligence inquiries is moving from "what can we get?" to "what do we need?"

10 ways to avoid destroying value in your technology company part 1

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
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  • September 16 2008

You own and operate a young but fast growing technology company. You make and sell software, hardware, semi-conductor chips or Internet-based services

Privacy issues in mergers and acquisitions Part 1: diligence

  • McMillan LLP
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  • Canada
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  • October 4 2007

Privacy legislation of general application has been in effect at both the federal level and at the provincial level in both British Columbia and Alberta since 2004 (similar legislation already existed in Quebec, and Nova Scotia enacted legislation in 2006