Jan 31, 2022 | Corporate Finance, Investment Funds, News, Regulatory Compliance
On November 19, 2021, the Honourable Peter Bethlenfalvy, Minister of Finance of Ontario, requested that the Ontario Securities Commission (the OSC) undertake an analysis of questions regarding the practice of tied selling raised by the Capital Markets Modernization...
Nov 30, 2021 | Corporate Finance, Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
In the previous issue of our bulletin, we provided a high level report on the new draft Capital Markets Act (Act) released by the Ontario Ministry of Finance (Finance) on October 12, 2021. In this issue, we highlight some of the provisions of the Act, together with...
Oct 29, 2021 | Corporate Finance, Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
For those looking for some new reading material, a Capital Markets Act (the “Act”) draft has been released by the Ontario Ministry of Finance. The Act is intended to replace both the current Ontario Securities Act as well as the Ontario Commodity Futures Act, and is...
Feb 26, 2021 | Investment Funds, News, Regulatory Compliance
In response to the recently released report by Ontario’s capital markets modernization taskforce containing 70 plus recommendations (summarized in our January bulletin), the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), excluding the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC),...
Jan 29, 2021 | Corporate Finance, Investment Funds, News, Regulatory Compliance
In our July 2020 Bulletin we reported on the Consultation Report of Ontario’s Capital Markets Modernization Taskforce. On January 22, the Taskforce released its Final Report after engaging with over 110 stakeholders and receiving over 130 stakeholder comment letters...
Dec 11, 2020 | News, Regulatory Compliance
On November 16, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) published OSC Notice 11-791 Statement of Priorities seeking comment on its draft 2021-2022 Statement of Priorities (SoP) to inform its business planning for the 2021-2022 fiscal year ending on March 31, 2022. The...
Dec 11, 2020 | Client-Focused Reforms (CFRs), Corporate Finance, Corporate Law, COVID-19, Cyber-security and Data Privacy, Mortgage and Real Estate Investment Vehicles, News, Regulatory Compliance
How do you summarize a year like no other in history? Well, the shift to a remote work environment didn’t do much to slow our regulators who, along with the Canadian asset management industry, rose to meet the multi-faceted challenges presented by the COVID-19...
Jul 31, 2020 | Corporate Finance, Investment Funds, Regulatory Compliance
Inventions, apologies, clean water and comedians. Canada is great at many things. Add to that list our tolerance for studies of our securities regulatory system. Here at AUM Law, we’ve been dipping into the initial consultation report (Report) of the Ontario...
