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Piercing the corporate veil

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 7 2013

The Alberta Court of Appeal has recently released a decision that adds much needed clarity to when an officer or director of a corporation will be

"Best efforts" - "reasonable efforts" - "commercially reasonable efforts" - what do these terms mean?

  • Dentons
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  • Canada
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  • June 7 2010

Agreements often refer to obligations being performed to a certain standard

This week at the SCC (10052013)

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 13 2013

The Supreme Court of Canada issued one decision of interest to Canadian businesses and professions this week. In Behn v. Moulton Contracting Ltd

Spam smart tip: who’s your family?

  • Dentons
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  • Canada
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  • May 13 2013

Sometimes legislative or regulatory definitions create ambiguity rather than clarity. The definition of "family relationship" in the draft Industry

The secret corporate source: protected or not?

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
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  • Canada
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  • May 8 2013

The Ontario Court of Appeal has allowed the identity of a media source within a corporation to remain secret in a related civil action. The Court has

Carrying on business in Canada: An overview of the Canadian legal and business landscape for investing, starting and operating a business in Canada

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 2 2013

Carrying on Business in Canada is a general overview of, and introduction to, Canadian legislative and business considerations involving starting and

Integration of IP counsel and legal counsel services to expedite technology commercialization

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • April 22 2013

The severe global economic recession of 2008 and the explosion in the availability, distribution and access to information electronically via the

CSAs propose new rules permitting web posting of proxy materials for beneficial owners

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 10 2010

On April 9, 2010, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSAs) published proposed amendments to National Instrument 54-101 Communication with Beneficial Owners of Securities of a Reporting Issuer

Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements

  • Davis LLP
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  • Canada
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  • June 22 2012

Many inventors and businesses spend considerable time and resources developing new products or building customer bases

Working capital as a purchase price adjustment tool

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
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  • Canada
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  • July 17 2012

Working capital adjustments were originally designed to ensure that enough cash remains in an acquired business to allow it to operate in the ordinary course post-closing without requiring a capital infusion by the new parent or shareholder(s), or to compensate the purchaser or vendor in the event that there is too little or too much cash, respectively, in comparison with what is needed to support the business' ordinary course operations