Articles

Some would call it evolution: others, revolution. Semantic flourishes aside, financial technologies are increasingly in the foreground as drivers of product differentiation and proliferation in the asset-based financing industry.

Authors Kelleher and D'Souza focus on the Proton decision in the English High Court in raising our consciousness of when email exchanges might be taken to comprise enforceable contracts.

Is there a discrete test to determine whether a court will pierce the corporate veil? Brandon Kain writes about a key development in this branch of the law in the UK Supreme Court case, Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd.

Fifth Third Bank v. O’Brien RBC v. Samson Management & Solutions Ltd. et al Coast Mountain Aviation v. M. Brooks Enterprises Ltd. CIT Financial Ltd. v. Mike Closs Logging Ltd. Scott and Pichelli Ltd. v. Eveley International Corp. Puratone Corp. (Re) Re: Bock inc. 2013

Proposed Amendments to the Ontario Payday Loans Act will have consequences for lenders and lessors.

Top 10 things Canadian companies should know when operating abroad.

Economic Action Plan 2012 announced that the Harper Government would undertake a comprehensive review of Canada’s tariff regime for developing countries. Read about the proposed changes.

The Ontario government argued in Superior Court on April 18 that former corporate directors and officers have presumptive, unlimited, personal, no-fault liability to orders to pay all environmental costs associated with the assets of their former corporation or subsidiaries.

It is not uncommon for entrepreneurs to overlook the importance of a shareholder agreement when establishing a new business. However, failure to overlook this critical agreement can cause considerable headache in the future.

The Supreme Court of Canada has granted leave to appeal a trilogy of Quebec class action law suits that sought to impose provincial consumer protection obligations on federally-regulated financial institutions.