Archive for the 'Investment Canada' Category
October 1, 2020
Practical Law Canada has published a New Legal Update, which discusses the Canadian Government’s temporary extension, effective from July 31, 2020 to the end of 2020, of the national security review timelines under the Investment Canada Act. In addition to its immediate impact, this extension should also be understood more broadly as consistent with the increasingly important role of national security reviews.
April 21, 2020
Practical Law Canada has published a New Legal Update, which discusses the Canadian government’s April 18, 2020 Policy Statement, which provides for increased scrutiny of certain foreign investments in Canada under the federal Investment Canada Act during the COVID-19 pandemic. Below is an excerpt with a link to the full Legal Update at Practical Law.
May 25, 2018
Practical Law Canada Competition has published a new Legal Update, which discusses the recent decision by the Canadian Government to block the proposed takeover of Canadian construction firm Aecon by China’s CCCI on national security grounds under the federal Investment Canada Act. Below is an excerpt with a link to the full Update.
June 13, 2014
The University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy has published a critical new paper on the Federal Government’s revised guidelines for investments in Canada by state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the oil sands entitled The Impact of Foreign Investment Restrictions on the Stock Returns of Oil Sands Companies (Eugene Beaulieu & Matthew M. Saunders authors).
March 27, 2014
The University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy has published a new research paper on Canada’s foreign investment regime entitled China’s State-Owned Enterprises and Canada’s FDI Policy (authored by Wendy Dobson, University of Toronto).
February 13, 2014
Mark Warner over at Maaw Law has given a very good and reasoned interview earlier today on the competition and trade aspects of the Canadian federal government’s proposal to take steps to equalize prices between the U.S. and Canada for Canadian consumers. I thought this interview set out quite well the various competing issues in this new federal initiative (though I myself remain a bit skeptical regarding the workability of the proposal, and remained concerned about potential deterrence to foreign investment in Canada and whether this is in essence price regulation). For this quite good interview see: Canadian Budget 2014: What’s In It For Consumers.
January 21, 2014
Steve Szentesi
Kevin Wright (Davis LLP)
Extract from a chapter to be published in CLEBC
Annual Review of Law & Practice – 2014
The following are some of the key merger and Investment Canada Act developments in Canada in 2013 (late 2012 to early 2014) from our forthcoming chapter in CLEBC’s Annual Review of Law & Practice – 2014.
December 18, 2013
Tis the season for annual reviews and updates. In this spirit, the Global Competition Review (GCR) has published its annual Antitrust Review of the Americas for 2014. This year’s issue includes contributions relating to the ICN, U.S. antitrust enforcement (cartels, CFIUS, IP & antitrust, mergers, private litigation, unilateral conduct and vertical restraints) and Canadian competition law enforcement (cartels, Investment Canada Act, mergers, abuse of dominance and private actions). This year’s issue also includes competition/antitrust law updates for Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Equador, Mexico, Panama and Suriname. For a copy of the new issue see: Antitrust Review of the Americas 2014.
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
