Canada
The Establishment, Composition, and Functioning of a Special Committee of a Board of Directors
Recommendations and reporting of an ad hoc special committee (special committee), to a board of directors, for review and approval, may be successfully contested by a counter-party because of a...Read more
Richard Leblanc
President, Boardexpert com Inc, Canada
Immigration - Related Due Diligence in Mergers and Acquisitions: Impact on Work Visas and Permanent Immigration Processes – United States
As global mergers and acquisitions are forecasted to continue strong in 2023, albeit more frequent and smaller in size, an informed in-house counsel must understand how these transactions and resulting...Read more
Mark Girgis
Chief Legal Officer, Hypertec Group, Canada
Olga Prygoda
Solicitor, Bcf, Canada
Julie Lessard
Partner, Bcf, Canada
An Introduction to Alliance Contracting
At its simplest, an alliance contract (known in British Columbia (BC) as the project alliance agreement or PAA) is a contract between a project Owner (the Owner Participant or the...Read more
Karen Mill
Assistant Vice President, Legal, Canada
Elizabeth Mayer
Partner, DLA Piper, Canada
Conflict of Laws and Compliance
Normally conflict of Laws (also called private international law) is defined as the set of rules or laws a jurisdiction applies to a case, transaction, or other occurrences that have...Read more
Haitao Zhang
Director, Legal, Cnpc America, Canada
The Parent Company’s Liability for its Foreign Subsidiary
The limited liability has been the foundation of the corporate legal framework since the establishment of the corporate legal concept, and the parent company and its subsidiary are separate entities,...Read more
Haitao Zhang
Director Legal , Cnpc America., Canada
Force Majeure and Pandemic
Since the COVID-19 broke out in December 2019 in central China, the lockdown of the entire country ensued and then the disease has grown exponentially around the world thereafter. Countries...Read more
Haitao Zhang
Director, Legal, Cnpc America, Canada
How to Navigate the Business in a Sanctioned Jurisdiction
It is imperative for a company, irrespective of the place of its incorporation or its headquarters, to seriously consider to what extent and how to comply with the American sanctions...Read more
Haitao Zhang
Director Legal , Cnpc America., Canada
Owner In-House Counsel Concerns in Large Construction Contracts
When an owner contracts for a new large energy infrastructure project in Canada there are many issues they need to consider before, during and after the contract has been signed....Read more
Shannon Onook
Senior Legal Counsel, TransCanada Corporation, Canada
Attorney-Client Privilege for In-house Counsel
A lawyer practicing in New York takes for granted claiming the attorney-client privilege no matter whether she/he works in a private law firm or a company, although there are so...Read more
Haitao Zhang
Director Legal , Cnpc America., Canada
Helping Your Organization Maximize The Benefits of Free Trade Agreements
To say we live in interesting times would be a massive understatement. The framework of laws, policies and politics that impact how and where our clients carry on business is...Read more
Heather Innes
JD, LLB, CIC.c, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Counsel to LexSage Professional Corporation, Canada