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The Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) has published a notice to businesses which are seeking to enter the peer-to-peer lending space in Canada. According to the OSC, depending on the structure, underlying facts and circumstances, a loan arrangement entered into on a peer-to-peer lending website may…

Going forward in Canada there will be three forms of the offering memorandum prospectus exemption in place across Canada: the new “Ontario Model” (Alberta, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec and Saskatchewan) which will be in effect in Ontario on January 13, 2016 and the…

Going forward in Canada there will be three forms of the offering memorandum prospectus exemption in place across Canada: the new “Ontario Model” (Alberta, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec and Saskatchewan), the “BC Model” (BC and Newfoundland) and the “Manitoba Model” (Northwest Territories, the…

The securities commissions in Alberta, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec and Saskatchewan (“Participating Jurisdictions”) are amending National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus Exemptions (“NI 45-106”) in respect of the offering memorandum exemption in section 2.9 of NI 45-106 in those jurisdictions (“New OM Exemption”).The new rules…

The securities commissions in Manitoba, Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (“Participating Jurisdictions”) are publishing in final form Multilateral Instrument 45-108 Crowdfunding (“MI 45-108”), which includes a crowdfunding prospectus exemption and a registration framework for funding portals (the “New Crowdfunding Exemption”).MI 45-108 is expected…

The Business Law Section of the OBA has appointed Barbara as the Co-Chair of the Securities Committee.  The Securities Committee covers all aspects of securities laws and is made up of securities law experts from private practice, in house and government.  This highly active Committee…

On March 31, 2015, the Canadian Securities Administrators (“CSA”) published, for a 90 day comment period, proposed amendments to Multilateral Instrument 62-104 Take-Over Bids and Issuer Bids (“MI 62-104”) and changes to National Policy 62-203 Take-Over Bids and Issuer Bids (“NP 62-203”) (“Proposed TOB Amendments”).Currently, MI 62-104 governs take-over…

Effective May 5, 2015 the Ontario Securities Commission (“OSC”) introduced a friends and business associates prospectus exemption (“FFBA Exemption”) to allow issuers (other than investment funds) to raise capital from their networks of family, close personal friends and close business associates. The FFBA Exemption is…

The securities commissions in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Québec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (“participating jurisdictions”) have adopted a new registration and prospectus exemption (“start-up crowdfunding exemption”) that allows start-up and early stage companies to raise capital in these jurisdictions, subject to certain conditions. The…