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Bay Street watches legal fees battle

Osler litigator Laura Fric talks to The Globe and Mail about a challenge to a lower court ruling that denied former board directors of the right to have their legal fees paid in advance by the company that is suing them for allegedly breaching their fiduciary duty as directors. Laura says the lower court ruling was an attempt to balance the conflicting issues in the dispute. 

June 5, 2013

Expert evidence gets a hearing

Osler litigator Christopher Naudie talks to the National Post about expert evidence, saying, “What the courts have told us is that there is some scrutiny of expert evidence at the certification stage, but it is a light pass. There is a case to be made that the courts should be exercising more of a gatekeeper function.”

June 5, 2013

A New Rule Book

Michelle Lally, Chair of Osler’s Competition Law and Foreign Investment Group, talks about  the federal government’s new foreign investment rules, in an interview published in Lexpert’s Special Edition announcing Canada’s leading corporate lawyers. “It’s vital to remember that foreign take overs are not off the table in most areas, including shale gas,” she says.

June 2013

Monique Jérôme-Forget is honoured with two distinguished awards

Monique Jérôme-Forget, Special Advisor at Osler, has received the Woman of Outstanding Achievement Award for 2013. 

June 2013

Activism Comes of Age

Noralee Bradley, a partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Calgary, talks about shareholder activism in Lexpert’s Special Edition, which announces Canada’s leading corporate lawyers. “Now I see the trend that shareholders and management want to engage with the board on strategy,” she says.

June 2013

Twenty-three Osler lawyers listed in Canada’s Leading Corporate Lawyers (Lexpert)

Osler is pleased to announce that 23 of its lawyers have been named as leading corporate lawyers in Lexpert’s Canada’s Leading Corporate Lawyers (published in Report on Business, June 2013). This report confirms Osler’s position as a leading Canadian firm in corporate law. 

June 2013

China looks to “deepen” energy ties with Canada, ambassador says

The National Post quotes Osler lawyers who refer to amendments to the Investment Canada Act, saying that “Such changes would broaden the definition of state-ownership and potentially subject minority purchases of natural gas and oil sands assets to a net-benefit review.” 

May 31, 2013

Pork deal highlights Ottawa’s murky foreign takeover stance on China

The Globe and Mail’sarticlethatposits a hypothetical takeover bid by a Chinese company quotes Osler‘s recent Update Proposed Amendments to Investment Canada Act Capture Control-in-Fact Investments by State-Owned Enterprises, by Michelle Lally, Peter Glossop, Peter Franklyn, Shuli Rodal and Matthew Anderson. 

May 29, 2013

Osler acts for Valeant Pharmaceuticals International as Canadian counsel in the largest Canadian M&A deal of the year so far

The Globe and Mail  reports on the acquisition by Valeant Pharmaceuticals International of Bausch + Lomb Holdings Inc. Valeant will acquire the global eye health company for $8.7 billion in cash – making it the largest M&A deal of the year and the largest ever healthcare transaction in Canada. Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt acts as Canadian counsel for Valeant Pharmaceuticals.  

May 28, 2013

Valeant Pharmaceuticals buys Bausch & Lomb

The Am Law Daily and Bloomberg, in articles providing details of Valeant Pharmaceuticals’ acquisition of Bausch & Lomb, report that the Osler team that is acting as Canadian counsel to Valeant includes firm chair and corporate partner Clay Horner, as well as corporate partner Douglas Bryce, tax partner Firoz Ahmed, and competition partner Peter Glossop. The Osler associates on the deal team are Amanda Heale and Robert Hughes.

May 28, 2013
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