In light of the rapidly evolving developments relating to COVID-19 and the social distancing measures being widely implemented, public companies are rethinking their plans to hold in-person annual shareholder meetings. As annual meeting season fast approaches, companies that want to move towards a virtual meeting but preserve their scheduled meeting date must move quickly.
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) encourages reporting issuers to contact their principal regulator to discuss any potential effect of the current COVID-19 outbreak on their ability to comply with their obligations under securities legislation, including filing deadlines or delivery of meeting materials.
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Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) is providing notice on a measure we have undertaken in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. To ensure our staff's safety and continuity of our operations, most of our Listed Issuer Services (LIS) staff are working from home effective as of the end of the day on March 13, 2020.
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More companies than ever considering virtual options, Broadridge says.
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Private equity firms have loads of cash to put to work, but uncertainty, travel restrictions, and working at home are crimping transactions.
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In the second of their series on issues facing Canadian companies during this proxy season, Lisa Culbert and Ramandeep Grewal look at shareholder activity and proxy developments.
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Here's how to shift the decision-making process from a misunderstood art toward a mainstream science.
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Short List of IR Magazine Awards - Canada 2020 nominees.
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No longer content to just 'let it be,' Canadian securities regulators are now proposing to reshape yesterday's rules to work for today's modern capital markets and practices. Over the past few years, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and other members of the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) have assessed, and are just now starting to propose, a wide range of initiatives to reduce regulatory burden for issuers, registrants and other market participants.
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The role of the Board and Board conduct in relation to change of control and other strategic transactions is a key focus of regulators and investors and has been the subject of much recent comment, including in the recently released decision of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) concerning the HBC going private transaction.
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