Outlook Series 2025: Your trusted business-legal guide to the year ahead
With markets undergoing unprecedented change, businesses need all the insights they can get to predict and plan for will happen next. Our 2025 Outlook series arms you with the actionable information you need from our leading practitioners in private equity, energy, tax, technology, public procurement, and competition/antitrust and foreign investment. Read their in-depth analyses and assessments of this year’s business-legal trends.
On Target: 2025 Private Equity Outlook
As declining inflation and interest rates confronted ongoing geopolitical unrest and economic uncertainty, the Canadian private equity market showed some contradictory trends in 2024. Although the number of deals declined year-over-year between 2023 and 2024 and fundraising faltered dramatically, aggregate deal value markedly increased, making 2024 a year of contrasts.
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Tax Perspectives: Review of 2024 and 2025 Outlook
This article provides an overview of the important Canadian legislative and judicial tax developments of 2024, and looks ahead to potential significant Canadian tax changes in 2025.
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Power Perspectives 2025
This publication is our tenth annual Canadian power industry retrospective. It is intended to provide an overview, at both the regional and national levels, of the most significant developments in the Canadian power sector, and associated emerging energy sectors, in 2024.
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Trends to Watch: 2025 Competition/Antitrust & Foreign Investment Outlook
This publication reviews key developments in Canada during 2024, and reflects on their potential significance for 2025 and beyond.
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Public Procurement 2024 Year in Review
This year was one of significant developments (and some rebalancing) at the federal level. A new debarment policy increases risks for suppliers, whereas Canada received reminders from the Federal Court of Appeal and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) that it cannot act with high-handed impunity.
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Technology Perspectives Outlook 2025
The start to 2025 has continued with all the uncertainty and opportunities we saw coming out of 2024. With the highs of 2021 and the lows of 2022-23 firmly in the rearview mirror (or so we hope), a new equilibrium seems to be setting in. On the Canadian side of things, the regulatory climate has both limited and enabled opportunity.
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