Business Law and Corporate Law

Canada is one of the most attractive international markets for franchise expansion. The country has a mature franchise sector across retail, hospitality, service, and fitness industries, and many foreign franchisors view...

The American Franchise Act ("AFA"), a bipartisan bill currently moving through U.S. Congress, could help bring clarity to franchising as a business model, with implications for Canadian operators.

Applications to set aside international arbitral awards often raise a familiar tension. As no appeal on the merits is allowed in such cases, the applicant will often claim the arbitral tribunal exceeded its jurisdiction by not applying the terms of the contract or that it failed to give adequate reasons for its award.

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...

Pour de nombreux clubs de golf, de curling et de tennis, ainsi que d’autres organisations de loisir en Ontario, la structure organisationnelle sous-jacente à leurs activités figure peut-être au bas de leur liste de choses à faire.

For many golf clubs, curling clubs, tennis clubs and other recreational organizations across Ontario, the corporate structure behind a club’s operations...

The case of Ebert v. The King (2023 TCC 49) was decided by the Tax Court of Canada in April 2023. The case involved three taxpayers—Irving Ebert, Richard Herman, and P. Philippe DesRosiers—who had donated bottles of wine to registered charities and claimed charitable donation tax credits.

In private mergers and acquisitions transactions in Ontario, it is customary for a share purchase agreement ("SPA") to include a mechanism that allows the purchase...

Can those who disposed of their shares in a company prior to suspicions of a fraudulent scheme, or purchased their shares through a non-Canadian exchange, still be included within the class in a secondary market...

Shareholder meetings may often appear to be a routine corporate affair, but they are the foundation of shareholder democracy. When a director election becomes contested, the manner in which a company administers...