Category Archives for Canada

Developments in e-discovery in Canada

With the integration of the Sedona Canada Principles into the rules governing discovery, courts are becoming more willing to order parties to produce their hard drives and laptops. As email and social

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Analysis of the Legality of Downloading in Canada

  The legality of file sharing has been hotly debated in Canada for many years, and the issue boiled over again recently with the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) trading pot shots in

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Innovative Capital Issuances By Canadian Financial Institutions

With the collapse and near collapse of many financial institutions globally, Canadians are undoubtedly left wondering why it is that our financial institutions (FIs) have managed to weather the storm

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Canada: Regulation Of Derivatives – An Update

A continuation ina series of articles on the Regulation of Credit Default Swaps which describe how regulators in the United States and Canada were addressing the issues of systemic risk and the instability

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The Posse List launches the Canada listserv

Due to growing interest and demand from our neighbors North of the border (not least of which due to the scores of Canadian lawyers employed on multiple U.S. corporate bankruptcies ) we have established

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Canadian Lawyers on North America’s Biggest Bankruptcies

  Like their U.S. counterparts, insolvency and restructuring lawyers at Canada’s largest firms have been working around the clock since the winter to keep up with the avalanche of major bankruptcy

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Merger Guidelines in Canada

The Canadian Competition Bureau issued its proposed revised merger enforcement guidelines (MEGs) in March 2009.  They were last revised September 2004 which was the first update since their original

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E-discovery: Can the Clients Afford It?

  The traditional rule in common law provinces is that that the producing party is responsible for the immediate costs of the production of its documents to the other party. While British Columbia does

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