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Category: Transactional Law
Litigation/Contract: Supreme Court Sets Narrow Exception Involving Settlement Privilege & Mediation Confidentiality
Do you think that everything that happens during a mediation will remain confidential???? Think again. Contrary to what lawyers and their clients have believed about mediation being a “Vegas-styled” environment, i.e., “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas,” the Supreme Court of Canada recently threw the proverbial sanctit
Read moreCommercial/Contracts: No CBCA Violation of Shareholder Oppression for Use of Share Pricing Method
Svensrud v Saskatoon Boiler MFG. Co. Ltd., 2014 SKQB 263, presented an recent, interesting issue regarding the accuracy of the pricing method defined in a unanimous shareholders agreement (“USA”). The Court of Queen’s Bench held that such a provision does not constitute shareholder oppression pursuant to the Canadian Business Corpor
Read moreCommercial Transactional Law: No Anti-Competition Act Violation Found in Oil-Gas Venture
No Competition Act Violation Found in Oil-Gas Venture Well, it is time to indulge discussion of another area of practice interest: commercial business transactions. Let us start with the oil and gas industry, industries which are certainly continuing to hold the public’s attention in an era punctuated by both a drive toward renewable so
Read moreTalking ‘Bout Commercial Transactional Agreements
No, it is hardly the most glamorous topic. Indeed, not many lawyers would actually recognize the challenges involved in the accurate, intensive, scrutiny of preexisting and newly-drafted agreements. I did not begin reviewing such documents — normally, in a commercial or Internet-based context — until 2005. Before then, I was exclu
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