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Pre-transaction confidentiality agreements: sword or shield?

By Andrea Brewer on July 23, 2015 Posted in Corporate finance

A recent lawsuit has again highlighted the importance of the terms of confidentiality agreements entered into between potential targets and acquirers in advance of an M&A transaction. Background It is usual practice in both the public and private M&A context that bidders who are looking at acquiring either the assets or shares of a target … Continue reading

Competition Bureau to Publish Merger Register

By Kevin Ackhurst (Toronto) on March 1, 2012 Posted in Antitrust, competition and regulatory

UPDATE: The Merger Register went live on March 9, 2012. The Competition Bureau will, at “the beginning of March”, start publishing a “Merger Register” on its website that will disclose certain information about transactions that are subject to the pre-merger notification obligations contained in the Competition Act. Designed to increase the level of transparency at the … Continue reading