Corporate Finance & Securities Insights

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Personal Problems: Changes to the Personal Grievance Exception

Authors: Erin Smith, Anna Beatch, Tom Richards

Published: July 20, 2017

Categories: Corporate Finance & Securities

Directors of a corporation are usually required to call a meeting of shareholders when requisitioned by shareholders. This requirement is subject to several exceptions, one of which is the personal…

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CSA Looks to Reduce Regulatory Burden For Reporting Issuers, Requests Feedback

Authors: Paul Goldman, Kimberly Burns

Published: June 13, 2017

Categories: Corporate Finance & Securities

Updated June 23: The CSA has extended the comment period until July 28 (from July 7). The Canadian Securities Administrators (the “CSA”) is soliciting comments on potential regulatory changes to reduce burdens on…

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CSA Cybersecurity Roundtable Highlights Interconnectedness

Authors: Anna Beatch, Erin Smith

Published: May 24, 2017

Categories: Corporate Finance & Securities

The Canadian Securities Administrators (the “CSA”) recently hosted a roundtable discussion to explore cybersecurity issues and responses to cybersecurity attacks. A key theme that emerged from the roundtable was the…

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Use of Social Media by Reporting Issuers

Author: Justin Wood

Published: March 23, 2017

Categories: Corporate Finance & Securities

Authors: Lynn Hnatick, Justin Wood Earlier this month, the Canadian Securities Administrators (“CSA”) released Staff Notice 51-348 – Staff’s Review of Social Media Used by Reporting Issuers. It comes as a result…

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Annual Filings and NI 43-101 – Certain Technical Considerations

Authors: Jonathan O'Connor, Paul Goldman

Published: March 13, 2017

Categories: Corporate Finance & Securities, Mining & Natural Resources

To most people March 31 is not a significant date. However, the same cannot be said for securities lawyers, auditors and their publicly traded clients. March 31 is the deadline…

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CSA Publishes Voluntary Meeting Vote Reconciliation Protocols

Authors: Anna Beatch, Erin Smith

Published: February 16, 2017

Categories: Corporate Finance & Securities

On January 26, 2017, the Canadian Securities Administrators (the “CSA”) published CSA Staff Notice 54-305 (the “Protocols”). The Protocols are designed to improve the shareholder voting process by addressing issues with…

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Securities Regulators Provide Initial Guidance on Cybersecurity Risk, Control and Incident Disclosure

Authors: Andrew Dilts, Paul Goldman, David Wotherspoon, Nathan Schissel

Published: January 25, 2017

Categories: Corporate Finance & Securities, Information Technology (IT), Science & Technology

Cybersecurity was recently identified as an area of priority for issuers by the Canadian Securities Administrators (the “CSA”), the collective body for the securities regulators of all of Canada’s provinces…

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Hecla/Dolly Varden – Reasons Issued on the Use of a Private Placement as a Defensive Tactic in First Major Decision of Canadian Securities Regulators Since Recent Amendments to Canada’ s Take-Over Bid Regime

Authors: Jonathan O'Connor, Mahdi Shams

Published: November 17, 2016

Categories: Corporate Finance & Securities

This post was written prior to our January 2017 merger, under our previous firm name, MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP. On October 24, the British Columbia Securities Commission ("BCSC") and the…

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More Shareholder Democracy, More Board Diversity: Proposed Amendments to the CBCA

Authors: Justin Wood, Anna Beatch, Erin Smith

Published: November 1, 2016

Categories: Corporate Finance & Securities

This post was written prior to our January 2017 merger, under our previous firm name, MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP. On September 28, 2016, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic…

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Canadian Securities Administrators Prioritize Cybersecurity

Authors: Anna Beatch, Erin Smith

Published: October 13, 2016

Categories: Corporate Finance & Securities, Corporate Governance, Information Technology (IT), Privacy, Science & Technology

This post was written prior to our January 2017 merger, under our previous firm name, MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP. In a recent blog post, we discussed how two American Senators…