Business Beat

On January 10, 2013, the United States Federal Trade Commission released the annual jurisdictional thresholds that trigger the requirement to file a premerger notification and report form under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.

I am honoured to have been selected as the founding chair of the OBA Business Law Section's newest committee - the International Business Law Committee. I take both of those words very seriously. As the founding committee, those who join will help chart a new course.

Both the Canada Business Corporations Act and the Ontario Business Corporations Act set out the requirements for keeping minute books. Learn more in this article from CCH Canadian's publication, Directors' Briefing.

This article was written in response to questions from my factoring clients regarding whether factoring transactions constitute “true sales” of accounts receivable and, if not, why and what are the ramifications.

2012 was a watershed for shareholder activism in Canada. While the number of proxy contests has increased over the last decade, rarely have Canada’s largest companies been the target of activist activity, let alone the target of a successful activist campaign.

Amid the gains garnered by commerce through the invention of legal personalities wise institutions have striven to provide checks and balances to the self-interested exercise of power. In the evolution of our commercial law, a recurring and unifying theme is that power begets responsibility.

On December 7, 2012, Industry Canada released widely anticipated revisions to guidelines on the review of proposed investments by foreign state-owned enterprises under the Investment Canada Act.

In June, 2012 Canada's privacy regulators issued a joint document titled Cloud Computing for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Privacy Responsibilities and Considerations.

On November 25, 2011, the Canadian Securities Administrators published for comment proposed changes to the rules on the marketing of prospectus offerings (the proposed rules).

In February 2012 the TSX Venture Exchange published a new Corporate Governance Bulletin and new Policy Amendments Bulletin.