As the 2025 AGM season approaches, organizations should ensure the chair of the meeting is well-prepared on how to conduct a fair and orderly meeting.

The latest developments in Special Situations Law in Canada
As the 2025 AGM season approaches, organizations should ensure the chair of the meeting is well-prepared on how to conduct a fair and orderly meeting.…
On January 4, 2024, the Court of Chancery of Delaware struck down the largest potential compensation plan in the history of public market – Elon Musk’s $55.8 billion compensation plan from Tesla. Can Musk override the Court’s decision with a…
Recently, there have been a number of high-profile proxy fights involving trusts, particularly real estate investment trusts (REITs). In contrast to corporations, a trust is predominately governed by its declaration of trust (DOT). While a shareholder…
In Eastern Platinum Limited v. Ren, 2024 BCCA 109, the BC Court of Appeal confirmed that where one activist shareholder’s proxy fight and subsequent derivative action fails, another shareholder represented by the same legal counsel can successfully obtain…
On December 8, 2022, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) jointly issued Staff Notice 23-329 – Short Selling in Canada (the Notice). The purpose of the Notice…
After nearly two years since the recreational cannabis industry has been in operation, we are seeing a rise in securities class actions and regulatory activity relating to cannabis companies. Since legalization, the growth of the sector has been fast and…
It will come as no surprise to those who have participated in a proxy fight to learn that these disputes can be heated affairs. Parties to a fight will routinely seek to discredit the other side to bolster their own…
Earlier this year, Commissioner Robert Jackson Jr. of the US Securities and Exchange Commission declared that cybersecurity is “the most pressing issue in corporate governance today.” Indeed, widespread digitization has fundamentally transformed the way that people do business, ushering in…