Emmanuel Pressman

Declining hostile bids, IPOs and public companies

Canada has seen a decline in hostile take-over bids and a rise in shareholder activism, alongside a continued decrease in IPOs suggesting policy...

Q4 Economic Outlook with Stephen Poloz

For months now, the rate of inflation has been heading in the right direction. After peaking back in 2022 at 8.1%, it has slowly worked its way back...

Q2 2024 Economic Update with Stephen Poloz

Osler Special Advisor and former Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz will sit down with Emmanuel Pressman, National Co-Chair of the firm, and share...

Q4 2023 Economic Update with Stephen Poloz

Please join us virtually on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, for our fourth quarter economic update with Osler Special Advisor and former Governor of...

Top Canadian public M&A legal developments in 2022

The pace of Canadian M&A activity slowed in 2022 relative to record deal activity levels in 2021. I

Cineplex awarded $1.2 billion by Ontario court for ‘busted deal’

In a highly anticipated decision, an Ontario Court has held that Cineworld improperly terminated its December 2019 agreement to purchase Cineplex’s...

M&A: A look back at 2021 and ahead to 2022

As the world worked towards returning to a “new normal,” Canadian public M&A deal volumes in 2021 outpaced those in 2020 on both a quarterly...

Potential Canadian implications of the Archegos fallout

Global bank losses following the Archegos Capital Management fallout now surpass $10 billion, prompting renewed focus in the United States on...