Corporate Finance and Securities
Corporate Finance and Securities

Our Corporate Finance and Securities team provides the timely, solution-oriented counsel you require. We regularly represent governments, private and public companies with local, national and international operations, as well as underwriters, lending syndicates and investment dealers. The thoughtful, strategic and practical advice we offer has one objective: to help our clients achieve their objectives.

 

Our comprehensive legal services include:

 

 

We can help you draft shareholder agreements that accurately represent shareholder intentions and protect shareholder interests. We can provide training to brokers, investment managers, and traders, and other professionals on their duties and obligations under securities law. We can assist you in securities and commercial disputes, including shareholder disputes, class actions, appraisal and share valuations, derivative actions, and claims involving oppression remedies. We can act in discipline cases involving alleged broker and dealer negligence and misconduct. We can also represent you in individual claims against stockbrokers, mutual fund dealers and representatives, and financial advisors.

Accounting Firms – Do they need to be registered as exempt market dealers
October  6, 2011

In 2009 Canadian securities regulators changed the rules relating to securities “registration” – these rules determine who is required to be registered under the securities laws to “trade” in securities. These changes became fully effective in the fall of 2010. Prior to the rule changes, the registration requirement was based on the type of transaction

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Accounting Firms – Do they need to be registered under the Securities Act?
May  6, 2011

Accounting firms that provide mergers and acquisitions advisory services and corporate finance services should be aware of the implications of recent developments in Canadian securities laws – changes to registration rules that became fully effective in the fall of 2010.   In 2009, Canadian securities regulators introduced changes to the rules relating to securities “registration”.

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Alert: Supreme Court of Canada Finds Proposed Canadian Securities Act Unconstitutional
December 22, 2011

On May 26, 2010, the Canadian federal government released the proposed Canadian Securities Act (the Act) which would, among other things, create a national securities regulator in place of the existing provincial and territorial securities regulatory regimes. Today, that legislation was found to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada.   First, decisions by

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CEDIFs – Nova Scotia’s Community-Based Capital Pools
December  8, 2011

The Community Economic Development Investment Fund (“CEDIF”) is a unique vehicle for promoting local economic development in Nova Scotia.   A CEDIF is a pool of money raised through the sale of securities to persons within a defined Nova Scotia community – be it geographic, cultural, or otherwise – to operate or invest in local

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Update: Our analysis of the Supreme Court of Canada finding that Canadian Securities Act Unconsitutional
January  9, 2012

On December 22, 2011, a unanimous Supreme Court of Canada concluded that the proposed Canadian Securities Act (the “Act”), viewed in its entirety, is not constitutionally valid as presently drafted. Click here to read McInnes Cooper’s December 22, 2011 Legal Alert, “Supreme Court of Canada Finds Proposed Canadian Securities Act Unconstitutional”.     On May

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Venture Capital Support for Emerging Atlantic Canadian Companies
June  6, 2011

On June 5, 2011, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick announced they will fund a new, privately operated, regional venture capital fund designed specifically to support emerging companies throughout Atlantic Canada.   For high potential companies that do not yet have the cash flow to secure financing from traditional lenders, a venture capital fund is critical

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