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Beware contractual provisions triggered (even indirectly) by a party’s insolvency

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

Following a recent ruling of the Ontario Court of Appeal, parties may need to proceed cautiously in enforcing contractual rights and remedies in

Give this post superpriority Supreme Court decides Sun Indalex Finance, LLC v. United Steelworkers

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • February 5 2013

The Supreme Court has issued its much-anticipated decision in Sun Indalex Finance, LLC v. United Steelworkers. The Supreme Court has issued its

This week at the SCC

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • February 4 2013

The Supreme Court issued one judgment this week in a case of interest to Canadian businesses and professions. In its eagerly awaited decision in Sun

The Canadian Nortel fraud prosecution results in acquittals

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 31 2013

The collapse of Nortel Networks Corporation (Nortel) after the bursting of the technology bubble in 2001, and the ultimate bankruptcy of Nortel, is a

Good news for Canadian mortgagees

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • September 12 2012

US lenders in cross-border M&A transactions often ask how real estate security differs in Canada

Mergers & acquisitions in a more uncertain world: using the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 25 2012

You are probably aware of the useful restructuring and creditor protection process available to insolvent entities in the United States under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code

A rascal of a doctrine: the elusive definition of resulting trust

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • June 5 2012

The Supreme Court of Canada has recently granted leave to appeal from the judgment of the British Columbia Court of Appeal in Edward Sumio Nishi v. Rascal Trucking Ltd

Can money paid into court be used to discharge other liens?

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 19 2012

When a contractor pays money into court to discharge a lien of a sub-contractor, can that money only be used to discharge that lien holder’s claim?

New priorities? The Ontario Superior Court applies Indalex and reaches a different result

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • February 13 2012

On February 2 and 9, 2012, the Ontario Superior Court released two decisions in the ongoing proceedings of Timminco Limited and Bécancour Silicon Inc. (together, the Timminco Entities) under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) that further develop the law regarding pension claim priorities in insolvency proceedings

In DP financing we trust? Supreme Court of Canada to hear Indalex appeal

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 5 2011

The Supreme Court has announced it will hear the appeal in the high-profile Indalex Ltd., Re