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Bill on Bankruptcy: Lehman Test Case on Judicial Nullification
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Release of new book on the 'Best Practices Under the FCPA and Bribery Act"
Buying and Selling Businesses in Today's Economy, Stephen Opler
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Deloitte: Turnarounds and Democracy Don't Mix
Lessons Learned from the Parker Drilling DPA and Ralph Lauren NPA
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Driven by its vast abundance of coal, copper, iron ore, gold and uranium (to name a few), Mongolia is forecast to have the world’s fastest growth rate in 2013, at 12% of GDP—a figure Western economies can only dream of in the...more
Last week the Canadian Government introduced amendments to the Investment Canada Act (ICA) to implement its revised policy towards state-owned enterprises (SOEs) which it announced in December last year....more
On Friday, December 7th, the Canadian Government approved two controversial takeovers of Canadian companies under the Investment Canada Act, Canada’s foreign investment review legislation: the acquisition of oil and gas...more
On December 7, 2012, the Canadian Minister of Industry announced decisions under the Investment Canada Act (ICA) to allow acquisitions by two foreign state-owned enterprises (SOEs): of Nexen Inc. by China National Offshore...more
On October 19, 2012, minutes prior to the expiry of the review period mandated by the Investment Canada Act (ICA), the Minister of Industry, Christian Paradis, announced that he was rejecting the proposed acquisition of...more
Totaro & Associates has completed the second phase of a study which began in December 2010 on the patent landscape of the horizontal-axis, utility-scale wind industry. We have now read and classified over 23,100 global...more
At three minutes to midnight on Friday, October 19, 2012, Industry Minister Christian Paradis advised Malaysian state-owned PETRONAS that it had not demonstrated that its proposed acquisition of Calgary-based Progress Energy...more
Financial institutions should undertake Dodd-Frank living will preparation with care....more
In This Issue: - p1 Jobs Act Implications for Private Equity - p4 Recent Developments in Acquisition Finance - p7 What’s the Deal With Fracking? Regulation, Litigation and Due Diligence - p11 New German Tax...more
Valuation - Land sale spending in Alberta surged in 2010 due to a combination of new plays, enhanced oil sands technologies and a rebound in oil prices. From April 2010 to March 2011, 365,969 hectares of Crown oil...more
Most of Canada's economic sanctions against Burma (Myanmar) have been repealed effective today. Enacted in 2007 and touted as being among the most aggressive in the world, Canada's sanctions and export controls prohibited...more
Table of Contents * Introduction * 2011 Corporate Finance Review * 2011 in M&A: A Year of Break-Ups * Developments in Canadian Poison Pill Jurisprudence * Global Stock Exchange Consolidation and the...more
The unrest currently taking place in the Middle East, along with the resulting sharp increase in world oil prices, illustrates just how dependent the U.S. has become on foreign oil imports. A generation ago, the U.S. imported...more
The volatility in the financial markets has been a wake up call for the energy sector. According to Jeffrey Delaney, Partner and coleader of the Global Energy Industry team at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, “treasury...more
This article explores the issues related to disclosure of climate risk in Securities and Exchange Commission filings and in voluntary climate or environmental reports. It provides recommendations as to how to evaluate what...more
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