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More Movement on Canadian Venture Capital Front

Feb 9, 2010 2:12pm

Last week it was announced that the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board would invest $400 Million in a “fund of funds” concept. That is, it looks like they are proposing to deploy $400 Million to existing private equity and venture capital firms so that they may, in turn, deploy that...

Ontario Small Claims Court Limit Raised to $25,000

Jan 13, 2010 10:15am

Effective as of January 1, 2010, the upper limit on claims brought before the Ontario Small Claims Court was raised from $10,000 to $25,000. This change will almost certainly increase the overall number of claims that are brought in the $10,000 to $25,000 range. Prior to this change it...

A case to watch for lawyers who serve on boards

Jan 6, 2010 9:00am

The Law Times has a good article (here) about a recently certified Canadian class action suit which has, as a side issue, the question of whether a law firm can be responsible for the director related liabilities of a member of the firm who serves on the board of directors...

Looking back at the CBLB in 2009

Dec 31, 2009 8:00am

Here is a list of the top 10 most viewed posts on the Canadian Business Law Blog in 2009 (its inaugural year). Thanks to all of those who have stopped by during the year. The interest so far has exceeded the expectations I had as I sat to write...

LaBarge Weinstein Fall 2009 Quarterly

Dec 22, 2009 1:19pm

See below for LaBarge Weinstein’s quarterly newsletter published this week: LaBarge Weinstein Fall 2009 Quarterly Just in time for the holidays, as our long, gentle fall turns the December corner, even the grimmest winter-curmudgeons among us can’t but feel the public/private financing markets heating up their engines in the driveway for what we...

MaRS Launches Entrepreneurs Toolkit

Dec 7, 2009 10:00am

MaRS has recently launched a great new website which includes a section called the Entrepreneurs Toolkit. It’s a collection of articles, videos and other tools all aimed at educating and helping entrepreneurs understand the practical and legal aspects of startup life. At launch the Toolkit boasts 10 workbooks, over 250...

CSA Report on Review of Executive Compensation Disclosure

Nov 30, 2009 6:14pm

On November 20, 2009 the Canadian Securities Administrators (the “CSA”) released their report on their recent review of executive compensation disclosure. The review conducted by the CSA follows the adoption of a new form for executive compensation disclosure by Canadian public companies which came into effect on December 31, 2008....

Rights offerings — an old new way to raise money

Nov 12, 2009 12:28pm

In the past 6 months or so I have had a number of clients ask about the possibility of raising funds by way of a rights offering. In late October we even filed a preliminary prospectus for one of our TSX Venture Exchange listed clients in connection with a proposed...

From Wellington Financial — 5 pre-deal questions to ask your venture debt lender

Oct 28, 2009 12:25pm

There is a good article at the Wellington Financial Blog with a list of questions your should consider asking your “venture debt lender” in the early stages of discussion (see the article here). For those of you who are not familiar with the term “venture debt lender”, the term is generally...

Congratulations to Chemaphor Inc. for raising funds in a tough market

Oct 25, 2009 5:45pm

Congratulations to Chemaphor Inc which announced Friday (see press release) that it successfully raised a round of just over $1.2 Million! No small task in this still tentative financing market. Great work was done on the agency front by Bloom Burton & Co. and others. Chemaphor is a LaBarge Weinstein client and...