The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) recently released its 2019 OSC Annual Report (Report), which provides enforcement statistics from 2019 and discusses the OSC’s priorities for 2020....more
In two decisions released on November 25, 2016, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) affirmed the fundamental importance of litigation privilege and solicitor-client privilege. In Lizotte v. Aviva Insurance Company of Canada...more
In its recent decision in Rooney v. ArcelorMittal S.A. (Rooney), the Court of Appeal for Ontario (Court) held that primary market investors have the option of suing both the offeror and its directors and signatories for...more
In the LBP Holdings v. Allied Nevada Gold Corp. decision released on April 27, 2016, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice refused to allow the underwriters of a secondary public offering (SPO) to be added as defendants to a...more
The recently released revised consultation draft of the Capital Markets Act (CMA) for the proposed Cooperative Capital Markets Regulatory System (Cooperative System) includes noteworthy revisions to the definition of...more