McCarthy Tétrault Advance™

Canada's competition and foreign investment review laws changed substantially in 2009 and 2010. The Competition Bureau has adopted an aggressive approach to enforcement of the Competition Act , and Industry Canada has taken controversial actions under the Investment Canada Act. These developments affect the way your company conducts its business.

Please join members of our National Competition Group for a discussion of the latest developments and what your business needs to know going forward. We will provide practical advice on competition compliance programs, competitor agreements, pricing and marketing practices, abuse of dominance, mergers, competition class actions and Investment Canada matters.

Speakers: Oliver Borgers, Donald Houston and Madeleine Renaud
Additional Session Speakers: Michele Siu (Toronto), Rick Pawluk (Calgary), Miranda Lam (Vancouver)

An application for accreditation is being made to the Barreau du Québec.

For more information regarding this event, please contact Diane Touchette.

Canada's competition and foreign investment review laws changed substantially in 2009 and 2010. The Competition Bureau has adopted an aggressive approach to enforcement of the Competition Act , and Industry Canada has taken controversial actions under the Investment Canada Act. These developments affect the way your company conducts its business.

Please join members of our National Competition Group for a discussion of the latest developments and what your business needs to know going forward. We will provide practical advice on competition compliance programs, competitor agreements, pricing and marketing practices, abuse of dominance, mergers, competition class actions and Investment Canada matters.

Speakers: Oliver Borgers, Donald Houston and Madeleine Renaud
Additional Session Speakers: Michele Siu (Toronto), Rick Pawluk (Calgary), Miranda Lam (Vancouver)

For more information regarding this event, please contact Alison Rannelli.

Canada's competition and foreign investment review laws changed substantially in 2009 and 2010. The Competition Bureau has adopted an aggressive approach to enforcement of the Competition Act , and Industry Canada has taken controversial actions under the Investment Canada Act. These developments affect the way your company conducts its business.

Please join members of our National Competition Group for a discussion of the latest developments and what your business needs to know going forward. We will provide practical advice on competition compliance programs, competitor agreements, pricing and marketing practices, abuse of dominance, mergers, competition class actions and Investment Canada matters.

Speakers: Oliver Borgers, Donald Houston and Madeleine Renaud
Additional Session Speakers: Michele Siu (Toronto), Rick Pawluk (Calgary), Miranda Lam (Vancouver)

This program qualifies for up to 1.5 hour of CPD credit under the LSBC MCPD regime.

For more information regarding this event, please contact Miranda Cheung.

Please join us for McCarthy Tétrault's 2012 Aboriginal Law Conference. This is an opportunity for industry representatives to advance their knowledge of the growing field of Aboriginal Law, including updates on recent developments.

Lawyers from McCarthys Aboriginal Law Group will provide their insight on a wide range of Aboriginal Law topics, including: 

• update on the Crown's duty to consult aboriginal peoples;
• best practices when dealing with First Nations;
• consultation and negotiations with First Nations;
• managing litigation involving First Nations;
• UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and its effects on business;
• title to First Nations' lands and obtaining a lease or other interest;
• security involving First Nations' lands; and
• contracts with First Nations.

The conference begins with an introductory session over breakfast intended as an overview for those new to Aboriginal Law or as a refresher for those who have already worked in the area. Breakfast will be followed by a series of focused panel discussions on specific issues of interest to industry participants.  The conference will conclude by 11:45 a.m.

2012 Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business ranks McCarthy Tétrault's Aboriginal law practice in the top tier. “McCarthy Tétrault's Aboriginal department is first rate — they go the whole nine yards."

For more information regarding this event, please contact Miranda Cheung.

The seminar will feature a discussion on the requirements of the City of Toronto Lobbyist Registry. The speakers will include Linda Gehrke, Lobbyist Registrar, and Daniel Artenosi of McCarthy Tétrault LLP. Ms. Gehrke will be speaking on the overall lobbyist registry framework, and she will focus on important issues that the Registry has been dealing with, including enforcement, identification of related parties that must be disclosed in registrations, donations to charities sponsored by local councillors, amongst others. Mr. Artenosi will be speaking on developing best practices to ensure compliance with the registry requirements, with specific reference to the approach used to manage internal registrations for lawyers in the Municipal Group and for clients.

This program is accredited by the LSUC for 1 hour Professionalism credit and 0.5 hours Substantive credit.

For more information regarding this event, please contact Zahra Malik.

Lawyers from McCarthy's Aboriginal Law Group will provide their insight on a wide range of Aboriginal Law topics, including: 

• update on the Crown's duty to consult aboriginal peoples;
• best practices when dealing with First Nations;
• consultation and negotiations with First Nations;
• managing litigation involving First Nations;
• UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and its effects on business;
• title to First Nations' lands and obtaining a lease or other interest;
• security involving First Nations' lands; and
• contracts with First Nations.

For more information regarding this event, please contact Alison Rannelli.

Join us for this engaging session on an important topic. Our partner, Geoff Hall, author of Canadian Contractual Interpretation Law which was recently published in its second edition, along with our partner Michael Feder will provide their insights on the following topics: 

• Nine fundamental precepts of contractual interpretation;
• A review of how specific clauses are typically treated;
• Commercial implications for the parties;
• A review of recent case law dealing with contractual interpretation.

Participants will be invited to pose questions and contribute to the discussion.

Speakers: Geoff Hall and Michael Feder

For more information regarding this event, please contact Alison Rannelli.

Join us for this engaging session on an important topic. Our partner, Geoff Hall, author of Canadian Contractual Interpretation Law which was recently published in its second edition, along with our partner Michael Feder will provide their insights on the following topics: 

• Nine fundamental precepts of contractual interpretation;
• A review of how specific clauses are typically treated;
• Commercial implications for the parties;
• A review of recent case law dealing with contractual interpretation.

Participants will be invited to pose questions and contribute to the discussion.

Speakers: Geoff Hall and Michael Feder

This program qualifies for up to 1.5 hours of CPD credit under the LSBC MCPD regime.

For more information regarding this event, please contact Miranda Cheung.

In this session, speakers Doug Hyndman, Chairman and CEO of the federal Canadian Securities Transition Office and McCarthy Tétrault partners René Sorell, Paul Steep, Dana Peebles and Wendi Locke will discuss the following developments: 

• Status of Canada's federal securities law initiative after 2011 Supreme Court decision;
• Proposed changes in private placement exemptions and pre-marketing of public offerings;
• Developments in regulation of marketplaces with respect to TMX and “Dark Marketplaces”;
• Shareholder Activists vs. Large Cap Companies using CP and TELUS examples;
• Developments in securities-based class actions.

This program qualifies for up to 1.5 Substantive CPD credits for Ongoing Members under the LSUC MCPD Regime. It does not qualify for Professionalism or New Member credit.

For more information regarding this event, please contact Zahra Malik.

Join us for this unique program designed to provide in-house counsel with a multi jurisdictional perspective on the issue of legal document management. We will review electronic document preservation obligations and explore best practices to manage risk and promote the efficient and cost-effective delivery of legal services.

Our partner Thomas Sutton will lead the discussion with experts including Justices Brown and Gans from the Ontario Superior Court.  McCarthy's own e-discovery expert, Dera Nevin , will walk participants through the ever changing requirements of Canadian Courts on the issue of proportionality as well as technical developments around the treatment and use of electronic productions in Court.

Specific points of discussion will include the following:

• The obligation to preserve/retain documents in Canada, as it applies to the in-house counsel environment.
• The Canadian Court's approach to proportionality as it applies to document management in the in-house counsel environment.
• The use of electronic evidence in Court
• What can clients and courts do to save legal document management costs
• How document management costs should be presented to the courts?
• U.S. trends in document management and whether they apply to the Canadian in-house counsel environment.

An accreditation application to LSUC has been made for Professionalism and New Member Credit.

For more information regarding this event, please contact Zahra Malik.

Join us for this engaging session on an important topic. Our partner, Geoff Hall, author of Canadian Contractual Interpretation Law which was recently published in its second edition, along with our partner Michael Feder will provide their insights on the following topics: 

• Nine fundamental precepts of contractual interpretation;
• A review of how specific clauses are typically treated;
• Commercial implications for the parties;
• A review of recent case law dealing with contractual interpretation.

Participants will be invited to pose questions and contribute to the discussion.

Speakers: Geoff Hall and Michael Feder

This program qualifies for up to 1.0 Substantive CPD credits for Ongoing Members under the LSUC MCPD Regime. It does not qualify for Professionalism or New Member credit.

For more information regarding this event, please contact Zahra Malik.

Please join us for "A Mock Negotiation of the M&A Deal".

A panel of seasoned mergers and acquisitions advisors will stage an interactive "mock negotiation". The panelists will illustrate the "give-and-take" in a contentious negotiation involving a middle-market acquisition of a privately held company, focusing on some of the more heavily negotiated terms, including:

• earn-outs including alignment of interests  and unintended consequences
• representations and warranties including knowledge qualifiers, materiality, survival periods and intellectual property/open source
• liability including escrow, indemnification and liability caps
• sign and close on different days or same day including closing conditions, restrictions during interim period and financial differences

The panelists will step out of character during the course of their presentation to explain their negotiating positions and strategies and to respond to questions from the audience.

Panelists:

• Howard Riback, CFO, Ventures West Capital
• Hans Knapp, Co-Founder and Partner , Yaletown Venture Partners
• Cheryl Slusarchuk, National Leader of the Technology Group at McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Moderator: Troy Lehman, Technology Lawyer at McCarthy Tétrault LLP

This is the second seminar in the Preparing for an Acquisition series.

For more information regarding this event, please contact Miranda Cheung.

For more information regarding this event, please contact Zahra Malik.