Overview
In September 2025, the Ontario Capital Markets Tribunal (the Tribunal) approved the settlement between the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and Huy Le (Alvin) Huynh (Huynh) and his spouse Thi Anh Nguyet (Nancy) Pham (
Securities Brokerage Contracts Are Exempt from Application of Quebec’s Consumer Protection Act
The recent unanimous Quebec Court of Appeal’s decision in Salko c. Financière Banque Nationale inc.[1] is the first appellate court decision addressing the scope of the exemptions from the application of the CPA set out at section 6a) of
Coordinated market manipulation between an officer and a shareholder
A moral obligation to self-disclose a corporate wrongdoing: what does it entail for solicitor-client privilege?
Corporations generally have an increasing burden to improve their social initiatives, environmental impact as well as accountability towards all third parties. Recently, the courts in Canada have rendered decisions that further increase the responsibilities of corporations in an area involving
False or Misleading Public Statements Made by Reporting Issuers in the Tech Industry
Earlier this year, the Ontario Capital Markets Tribunal (the Tribunal), accepted a joint settlement agreement[1] submitted by Staff of the Ontario Securities Commission (Staff) and defendant Raymond Pomroy (Pomroy), who had been accused of
Acceleration of Regulatory Scrutiny Towards Crypto Assets Trading Platforms
In the last year, Québec’s Financial Markets Administrative Tribunal (the TMF) has emphasized that crypto asset trading platforms must comply with all applicable securities and derivatives regulations. Otherwise, in accordance with the TMF’s mission to protect the public and
In-House Insider Trading
In light of the unprecedented shift to a “working-from-home-economy” due to the pandemic, employees need to be extremely careful with work-related information that can accidentally be shared with their household. Confidential or even material non-public information can involuntarily be shared
Primer on Prospectus Exemptions
Do’s and Don’ts When Applying for a Search Warrant
In the context of a lawsuit by the Agence du revenu du Québec (ARQ) for failure to report and remit various tax amounts, the defendants sought to exclude the evidence seized by the ARQ under a search warrant authorized by