Canada
Canadian Policy and Corporate Governance Recommendations to Address the United States’ Tariffs
Canada is one of the few countries in the world experiencing the most pronounced effects, including financial and job losses, of President Trump’s tariffs (i) upon exports of Canadian goods,...Read more

Richard Leblanc
President, Boardexpert com Inc, 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

Julie Lessard
Partner, Bcf, Canada

Olga Prygoda
Solicitor, Bcf, Canada

Mark Girgis
Chief Legal Officer, Hypertec Group, 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
Elizabeth Mayer
Partner, DLA Piper, Canada

Karen Mill
Assistant Vice President, Legal, 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