Business Law and Corporate Law

On November 4th, 2021, Peter Routledge, the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (Canada) announced that OSFI was lifting regulatory restrictions that it had imposed on FRFIs relating to dividends, share repurchases and ...

On February 24, 2025, Fasken published its third annual ESG Disclosure Study, offering insights into the environmental, social, and governance ("ESG") strategies of 81 publicly listed companies...

Institutional Shareholders Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass, Lewis & Co. (Glass Lewis) recently published updates to their respective Canadian benchmark...

If one of your goals is to issue official donation receipts so your donors can claim a tax credit, there is another significant process ahead. And it is one that catches many newly incorporated nonprofits completely...

The Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) has started to lift the veil on its promised “modernization” project for the charitable sector, and the early signals point to changes in administrative processes, compliance oversight and how charities interact with the Charities Directorate.

Online incorporation services make it easy to file articles and create a legal entity, but they often leave critical gaps in corporate governance, bylaws, and organizational documentation.

Forget smartphones, the internet or PCs. The closest comparable to the transformational impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the discovery of electricity. But the electrification of society rolled out relatively slowly. AI is only gaining speed.

Le gouvernement fédéral a publié un projet de règlement (le « projet de règlement ») en vertu de la Loi sur l’usage du français au sein des entreprises privées de compétence fédérale (la « LUFEP »), lequel instaurerait un nouveau régime linguistique pour les entreprises sous réglementation fédérale.

The details and implications of the Government of Canada’s long-awaited national AI strategy are now coming into view. The June 4 release of AI for All, together with the introduction before Parliament of Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, Bill C-34, the Digital Safety Act, and Bill C-36, the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, signals how the government intends to approach AI governance.

Il n’y a pas longtemps, un vendredi matin, Simar Anand se préparait pour la fin de semaine la plus occupée de l’année au Resto Darbar, sur le boulevard Saint-Laurent à Montréal. L’occasion? La fin de semaine du Grand Prix. La liste des réservations du restaurant de 40 places comptait des clients de partout dans le monde en raison de l’arrivée en ville de Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, Lando Norris et compagnie.

Globally, private equity markets have moderated in the first half of 2026 as new and ongoing geopolitical developments are shifting the calculus on dealmaking.

Can private equity investors gain economic exposure to Canadian law firms without directly owning them? This article examines the emerging management services model, where investors acquire interests in the administrative infrastructure...