The following is a brief summary reviewing crowdfunding and other capital raising prospectus exemptions proposed by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC). “Crowdfunding” refers to the process by which many investors of small amounts of funds come together to finance organizations with limited access to conventional…

Effective February 11, 2013, the Canadian Securities Administrators amended National Instrument 54-101 – Communication with Beneficial Owners of Securities of a Reporting Issuer (“NI 54-101”) and National Instrument 51-102 – Continuous Disclosure Obligations (“NI 51-102”) which introduced the “notice-and-access” procedure (described in more detail below),…