Business Beat

This article examines the principles that apply to the enforceability of restrictions agreed to in the sale of a business.

Some would call it evolution: others, revolution. Semantic flourishes aside, financial technologies are increasingly in the foreground as drivers of product differentiation and proliferation in the asset-based financing industry.

Authors Kelleher and D'Souza focus on the Proton decision in the English High Court in raising our consciousness of when email exchanges might be taken to comprise enforceable contracts.

Is there a discrete test to determine whether a court will pierce the corporate veil? Brandon Kain writes about a key development in this branch of the law in the UK Supreme Court case, Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd.

Top 10 things Canadian companies should know when operating abroad.

Economic Action Plan 2012 announced that the Harper Government would undertake a comprehensive review of Canada’s tariff regime for developing countries. Read about the proposed changes.

The Ontario government argued in Superior Court on April 18 that former corporate directors and officers have presumptive, unlimited, personal, no-fault liability to orders to pay all environmental costs associated with the assets of their former corporation or subsidiaries.

It is not uncommon for entrepreneurs to overlook the importance of a shareholder agreement when establishing a new business. However, failure to overlook this critical agreement can cause considerable headache in the future.

The Supreme Court of Canada has granted leave to appeal a trilogy of Quebec class action law suits that sought to impose provincial consumer protection obligations on federally-regulated financial institutions.

A group of securities dealers has successfully obtained relief from most of the requirements that typically drive the need for a Canadian private placement supplement, or wrapper, for selling securities of non-Canadian issuers into Canada.