Archive for the 'Mergers' Category
August 29, 2014
Earlier today, Canada’s Competition Bureau announced that it has launched a new Quarterly Report as part of its ongoing “Transparency Initiative” (i.e., to increase its communication to Canadians regarding the work the Bureau does). According to the Bureau, its new Quarterly Report “presents statistics relating to a variety of intake measures, merger and non-merger enforcement matters, as well as advocacy, outreach and partnership initiatives”. I discuss a few key points below that caught my eye.
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).
May 21, 2014
Several days ago the Competition Bureau posted new remarks by the Commissioner of Competition from the Canadian Bar Association’s 2014 Competition Law Spring Forum (one of two annual Canadian competition law conferences hosted by the CBA). See: Remarks by John Pecman, Commissioner of Competition. These new remarks are a bit of a “one stop shop” for Canadian competition law developments over the past year or two. A few highlights of the Commissioner’s remarks that caught my eye included:
April 4, 2014
The Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia (CLE BC) has published its Annual Review of Law & Practice – 2014. This summary of major areas of Canadian law applicable in British Columbia includes my co-authored chapter on Canadian competition law developments and trends in 2013.
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).
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.
January 16, 2014
Mark Katz and John Bodrug (Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg in Toronto) have published a quite good new note on the risks of managing document creation in light of a merger review, entitled: “Compliance Alert: The Importance of Managing Document Creation – Update on the Bazaarvoice/PowerReviews Transaction”. A good note on discussions and document creation in light of an impending merger. Introduction:
January 7, 2014
In an interesting advocacy letter published yesterday, and reminiscent of parallel wireless competition issues in Canada (and also discussed in the letter), the American Antitrust Institute has urged the U.S. DoJ and FCC to oppose any potential Sprint/T-Mobile merger. Also somewhat reminiscent of Canada, the AAI argues, among other things, that the U.S. needs at least four major wireless players (and in the U.S. case, that T-Mobile has emerged as a maverick following the blocked AT&T/T-Mobile deal in 2011). I thought this was an interesting advocacy piece both in terms of its discussion of the U.S. wireless market and current parallels and discussion of similar issues in Canada: AAI Urges the DoJ and FCC to Prevent Emerging Wireless Competition From Being Smothered in the Cradle.
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
