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Risk retention redux: the international context

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 7 2012

In comparison to the ongoing regulatory onslaught in Europe and the United States, we in Canada appear to have gotten off pretty lightly and may even have felt that this was completely justifiable given our country’s performance and the high performance standards maintained by Canadian assets throughout the financial crisis

For whom the bell tolls: know your limitations

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • April 2 2012

Litigants looking to suspend a limitation period should pay close attention to the recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Hamilton (City) v. Metcalfe & Mansfield Capital Corp., 2012 ONCA 156

BCSC extends registration exemption for MIEs until end of year

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 8 2012

On March 2, the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) extended the exemption from the dealer registration requirement for trades in securities of mortgage investment entities (MIEs) until December 31, 2012

Securitization available for Canadian uninsured conventional residential mortgages?

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • February 6 2012

At the American Securitization Forum annual conference last month, a panel discussed the future of U.S. mortgage finance

First Nations to issue bonds to raise money for infrastructure projects

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • November 30 2011

As Canada’s First Nations move towards a new era of revitalization, self-sufficiency and economic development, they require access to financial instruments and markets to fund infrastructure development

Regulatory overkill, American style

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • November 18 2011

Emerging from the vast literature generated by the recent financial crisis are two competing narratives attempting to identify the root cause of the crisis

Overview of comments of CSA securitization proposals

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 14 2011

On August 31 the comment period in respect of the Canadian Securities Administrators’ Proposed Securitized Product Rules ended

Proposal for a new framework for the regulation of securitized products

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • April 14 2011

On April 1, 2011, the Canadian Securities Administrators ("CSA") published a concept paper that outlines its proposal to overhaul the regulation of "securitized products" in Canada (the "Proposal"

Good news for lenders to leasing companies: of interest to securitizers and lenders

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 1 2011

The recent British Columbia Court of Appeal case of Perimeter Transportation Ltd. (Re) 2010 BCCA 509 (the “Perimeter Case”), provides some relief to companies that finance lessors when the lessor fails to properly register financing statements against its lessees

Transfer and assignment of residential mortgage loans in the secondary mortgage market

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada, USA
  • -
  • November 25 2010

For those of us who follow the largely self-inflicted trials and tribulations of the US residential securitization business, the recent White Paper from the American Securitization Forum (Transfer and Assignment of Residential Mortgage Loans in the Secondary Mortgage Market) is an interesting review of a couple of current legal issues associated with U.S. residential mortgage conveyancing that relate directly to the integrity of US securitization structures and foreclosure actions