Business Law and Corporate Law

Family-owned businesses often start governing themselves informally, with an understanding between siblings or cousins that works fine until the family, or the business, outgrows it. Two publications help explain what effective family enterprise governance looks like, and why it's worth the effort of building it deliberately rather than leaving it to chance.

More than 40 of the world’s leading financial institutions and central banks are actively collaborating on initiatives to modernize cross-border payments.

Le 22 juillet 2026, l’Organisme canadien de réglementation des investissements (l’OCRI) a publié l’édition 2026 de son Rapport annuel sur la mise en application. Le rapport indique que...

Family-owned businesses often start governing themselves informally, with an understanding between siblings or cousins that works fine until the family, or the business, outgrows it. Two publications help explain what effective family enterprise governance looks like, and why it's worth the effort of building it deliberately rather than leaving it to chance.

The Canadian Securities Administrators have introduced a new electronic access framework for continuous disclosure documents, allowing reporting issuers to satisfy delivery obligations through SEDAR+ rather than traditional mailing methods. This voluntary regime, effective September 22, 2026, requires issuers to meet specific filing...

The Canadian Securities Administrators have proposed significant amendments to the Listed Issuer Financing Exemption that would permanently codify increased financing limits up to $50 million and introduce greater flexibility for reporting issuers seeking capital. These changes build on the success of a temporary blanket order that dramatically increased both the number of offerings and average capital raised, while introducing new provisions for marketed offerings, successor issuers, and streamlined disclo

Sometimes deals are too good to be true. In Curridor v. Millstone Homes Inc., 2026 ONCA 571, a buyer claimed that he was entitled to buy a newly built property in Komoka, Ontario from a builder for the cost of construction under a special “friends and family deal.”

Since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has quickly evolved from experimental pilot programs to a core operational input for many publicly traded companies.[

Corporate leaders in Canada face an increasingly complex web of legal, regulatory and reputational risks that demand careful navigation. This comprehensive examination reveals how directors' and officers' liability has evolved, encompassing traditional fiduciary duties alongside emerging challenges in cybersecurity, AI governance, climate disclosures and supply chain management. Understanding these exposures and the available protections through indemnification and insurance has become essential for effecti

A Lifetime Benefit Trust is one of the most powerful and underutilized estate planning tools available to Canadian families where a financially dependent beneficiary suffers from a mental infirmity.

Family-owned businesses often start governing themselves informally, with an understanding between siblings or cousins that works fine until the family, or the business, outgrows it. Two publications help explain what effective family enterprise governance looks like, and why it's worth the effort of building it deliberately rather than leaving it to chance.

In Laberge Gareau v. Laberge Gareau, 2026 ONSC 4669, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice addressed an unfortunate dispute between a mother and her two daughters over ownership of the family farm. The court found that the mother remained the beneficial owner of the property when she registered it in trust for her daughters and that she never intended to give up beneficial ownership.