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Canadian Competition Bureau Publishes Draft Updated Merger Enforcement Guidelines

The Competition Bureau (Bureau) has released for consultation draft Merger Enforcement Guidelines (draft MEGs), updating its last comprehensive merger guidelines issued in 2011 (2011 MEGs).

Canada Anti-trust

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Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg

Budget 2025: Effect On M&A Market

The recent Federal budget outlines several factors influencing M&A and PE. Please see our Budget 2025: Building Canada's Strength article for a more detailed...

Canada Commercial

C

Cassels

Insights From Cassels/ACG Event

Cassels and ACG recently co-hosted an event entitled "An Insider's Perspective on Shaping Canada's Economic Future" and a number of observations were shared...

Canada Commercial

C

Cassels

An Update On Private Equity M&A In Canada

M&A activity in 2025 has been defined by fewer deals but larger overall deal values, underscoring a bifurcated market. Globally, overall deal value rose sharply...

Canada Commercial

C

Cassels

Glow And Grow : What's Shaping M&A In The Beauty Industry

Canada Commercial

BJ

Bennett Jones LLP

OSC Provides Practical Takeaways For Issuers

Canada Commercial

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Proposed Amendments To Non-GAAP Financial Measures Disclosure To Respond To IFRS 18

Canada Commercial

C

Cassels

Fiduciary Duties After The Deal: Lessons From Megory Holdings

Canada Commercial

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Energy & Infrastructure M&A 2025

Canada Government

MA

MLT Aikins LLP

Canadian Competition Bureau Publishes Draft Guidelines On Anti-Competitive Conduct And Agreements

Canada Anti-trust

DW

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg

Obligations fiduciaires après la transaction : les enseignements tirés de Megory Holdings

Canada Commercial

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Season Finale: Wrapping Up A Year In M&A (Podcast)

Canada Commercial

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Dentons Canada LLP

Lion Electric Tests The Limits Of Directors' And Officers' Releases Under The Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act

Canada Insolvency

TL

Torys LLP

IRS Releases Proposed And Final Regulations Affecting Foreign Governments

TL

Torys LLP

Bill 60 Becomes Law – Updated On The Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025

Canada Real Estate

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McMillan LLP

British Columbia Establishes New Illness And Injury Leave

Canada Employment

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Littler - Canada

Procedural Route To Challenge Capital Markets Regulatory Investigative Tool Confirmed

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

12 Key Employee Rights In Ontario (2025–2026 Update)

Canada Employment

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Unified LLP

2025: The Year In Review In Employment Law

Canada Employment

C

Cassels

It's Not A Bug, It's Innovation: Why Criticism Of Private Equity's Use Of Continuation Vehicles Is Wrong

Writing in the Harvard Business Review in 1989, Harvard Professor Michael C. Jensen predicted the "eclipse of the public corporation" by private equity.

Canada Commercial

F

Fasken

The Voluntary Disclosure Landscape: Strategic Considerations For Tax Lawyers – Comparing Canada And The United States

In the course of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, it is common for due diligence processes to uncover past tax reporting errors or unpaid taxes...

Canada Commercial

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Dentons Canada LLP

2025 M&A Year In Review

Despite trade uncertainty and other headwinds, M&A volumes remained robust as interest rates normalized, pricing expectation gaps narrowed, and regulatory conditions improved.

Canada Commercial

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Fasken

Navigating The New Competition Act: Early Impacts And Emerging Challenges

The amendments to the Competition Act result in increased scrutiny of transactions, requiring early-on proactive measures from merging parties.

Canada Anti-trust

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Aucun « changement important » en jurisprudence : perspectives pratiques suite à la décision hautement attendue de la Cour suprême (Lundin)

Canada Commercial

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Canadian M&A Outlook: Cautious Optimism In A Reshaped Market

Canada Commercial

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Hot Topics In Financial Services M&A

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Asset Joint Venture Monetizations: Unlocking Capital While Keeping Control

Canada Commercial

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Search Funds In Canada: Navigating Cross-border Challenges

Worldwide Commercial

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Navigating The New Competition Act: Early Impacts And Emerging Challenges (Podcast)

Canada Anti-trust

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

2025 Osler Legal Outlook

Canada Law Performance

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Supreme Court Of Canada Affirms Broad Definition Of "Material Change"

Canada Commercial

DW

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg

Redefining Real Estate Deals: Trends In Representations And Warranties In Purchase Agreements

Canada Real Estate

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

"A Change Is A Change" – The Supreme Court Rejects A Narrow Interpretation Of "Material Change"

Canada Commercial

F

Fasken

2025 Osler Legal Outlook

Osler Legal Outlook provides insightful perspectives from Osler's legal experts on critical issues facing Canadian businesses. Learn more by exploring our 23 informative topics in this year's publication and be ready for the year ahead.

Canada Law Performance

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Supreme Court Of Canada Affirms Broad Definition Of "Material Change"

With its much anticipated decision in Lundin Mining Corp. v Markowich, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has weighed in on the distinction between "material fact" and "material change...

Canada Commercial

DW

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg

Redefining Real Estate Deals: Trends In Representations And Warranties In Purchase Agreements

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, real estate transactions have increasingly adopted concepts traditionally seen in merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions.

Canada Real Estate

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

"A Change Is A Change" – The Supreme Court Rejects A Narrow Interpretation Of "Material Change"

The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has issued its much-anticipated ruling in Lundin Mining on the meaning of "material change" under the Ontario Securities Act (OSA).

Canada Commercial

F

Fasken

Issuing And Receiving Options

Canada Commercial

SkyLaw

Solvent Liquidations - Check: Are You Really Solvent?

Solvent liquidations are often regarded as an orderly process, but the recent Noal case shows they have exacting requirements. When a company enters a members' voluntary liquidation (MVL)...

GW

Gowling WLG

NDA And LOI: Part 2: The Role Of Letters Of Intent In M&A – From Confidentiality To Commitment (Podcast)

NDA and LOI: Part 2: The role of Letters of Intent in M&A – From confidentiality to commitment

Canada Commercial

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Dentons Canada LLP

Les 5 Clés Pour Réussir Le Repreneuriat

Le repreneuriat s'impose comme un levier majeur du renouvellement économique au Québec, avec plus de reprises que de créations d'entreprise dans la dernière année.

Canada Commercial

BB

BCF Business Law

Budget 2025 Implementation: Proposed Amendments Affecting Small And Mid-sized Federal Financial Institutions

The federal government (the Government) tabled An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on November 4, 2025 (the Budget Bill) as a Notice of Ways and Means Motion...

Canada Commercial

TL

Torys LLP

Parallel Derivative And Oppression Actions: New Guidance For Investors In Closely Held Corporations

Canada Commercial

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Actions obliques et recours en cas d'abus intentés en parallèle : nouvelles orientations pour les investisseurs dans les sociétés à peu d'actionnaires

Canada Commercial

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Navigating The Relationship Between Retail Funds And Institutional Capital

TL

Torys LLP

New Year, New MEGs: Competition Bureau Publishes Draft Merger Enforcement Guidelines For Comment

Canada Anti-trust

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Competition Bureau Releases Proposed Enforcement Guidelines: A New Framework For Addressing Anti-Competitive Conduct And Agreements

Canada Anti-trust

F

Fasken

Building On The Past, Not Breaking New Ground: Deconstructing The Bureau's Proposed Merger Enforcement Guidelines

Canada Anti-trust

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Understanding The Basics Of Plans Of Arrangement

Canada Commercial

CM

Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP

Les actions ordinaires peuvent-elles déclencher la Partie VI.1? Ce qu'il faut savoir des conventions d'actionnaires

MT

Miller Thomson LLP

Policy, Dual-Use And DefTech Drive A New Era For Private Capital In Defence

Canada Government

BJ

Bennett Jones LLP

Droits d'évaluation dans les F&A de sociétés ouvertes : structure, prix de l'opération et cours des actions

Canada Commercial

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Fasken (French)

Appraisal Rights In Public M&A: Deal Structure, Deal Price, And Trading Price

Canada Commercial

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Fasken

Selected Tax Measures In The 2025 Federal Budget - Canada

F

Fasken

Budget 2025: Building Canada's Strength

C

Cassels

Competition Bureau Publishes Draft Anti-Competitive Conduct And Agreements Enforcement Guidelines For Comment

Canada Anti-trust

BC

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

The A&D Minute: Mapping The Future Of Direct-to-device

Canada Media & IT

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AlixPartners

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Latest Videos

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Episode Five: Hostile Bids – Unsolicited Takeovers And Legal And Strategic Challenges (Podcast)

D

Dentons Canada LLP

A Conversation With Curt Sigfstead (Video)

OH

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Equity Compensation Plans: Stock Options, RSUs, And Allocation (Video)

SL

Siskinds LLP

Arrangements With Third-Party Creditors: Secured Creditor Of A Target On An Acquisition (Video)

GW

Gowling WLG

Perspectives du capital d'investissement privé pour 2023 : dix points essentiels à retenir (Video)

MT

McCarthy Tétrault LLP

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