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Proxy Season Preview 2023

Canada, USA - January 17 2023 On January 11, 2023, Fasken, along with TMX Group Ltd. (“TMX Group”, which includes the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) and TSX Venture Exchange…

What if No One Gets Elected?

Canada - December 1 2022 Amendments to the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) which went into effect on August 31, 2022 brought "majority voting" to the election of…

LIFE Revisited

Canada - October 20 2022 The "Listed Issuer Financing Exemption", known as "LIFE", will enter into effect on November 21, 2022. As its name suggests, LIFE is a Prospectus…

CBCA Corporations Listed on TSX Can Repeal Their Majority Voting Policies

Canada - October 3 2022 The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) Company Manual provides in section 461.3 that an issuer listed on TSX must adopt a majority voting policy "unless it…

“Making Available”- The Supreme Court Rules That There Is Only One Royalty Fee To Be Paid

Canada - July 27 2022 Fasken successfully represented several of the Respondents before the Supreme Court of Canada in Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers…

Toronto Stock Exchange staff notice on normal course issuer bids

Canada - July 11 2022 In May 2022, the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") issued Staff Notice 2022-0001 (the "Staff Notice") on normal course issuer bids ("NCIBs"), "providing…

Canada’s Competition Tribunal has jurisdiction to grant “interim interim” relief in the contested merger context

Canada - March 3 2022 As discussed in our prior blog post titled “Competition Tribunal Dismisses Request for Interim Interim Order”, the Competition Tribunal (the…

Proxy season preview 2022: ESG - Growing importance, developments and Perspectives from stakeholders

Canada, Global - February 14 2022 On January 13, 2022, Fasken and Laurel Hill Advisory Group (“Laurel Hill”) hosted a webinar on environmental, social and governance (“ESG”)…

Proxy season preview 2022

Canada - January 26 2022 On January 13, 2022, TMX Group Ltd. (Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) and TSX Venture Exchange (“TSXV”)), Laurel Hill Advisory Group (“Laurel Hill”)…

Child and forced labour: The need for urgent repair

Canada, USA - January 21 2022 With upwards of 200 million child and forced labourers toiling within the global economic system, the spotlight in 2022 is squarely directed at…