At the May 2013 Annual Conference of the Exempt Market Dealers Association of Canada, I was privileged to moderate a panel discussing various proposed capital raising exemptions under consideration by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) including the Offering Memorandum Exemption which remains unavailable in Ontario. In a recent OSC progress report in August 2013 involving […]
Ontario’s Proposed Capital Raising Exemptions – Panel Discussion
OSC Dialogue 2013 – Capital Formation in Canada: Issue or Opportunity – Listen to Audio
At OSC Dialogue 2013, Moderator David Kaufman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Westcourt Capital Corporation, led a discussion on Capital Formation in Canada: Issue or Opportunity. The distinguished panel involved: Kevan Cowan, President, TSX Markets and Group Head of Equities, TMX Group Huston Loke, Director, Corporate Finance, OSC Jos Schmitt, Chief Executive Officer, Aequitas Innovations […]
Saskatchewan Getting Ready to Legalize Equity Crowdfunding
October 7, 2013, the Saskatchewan Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority (the FCAA) published a framework for a proposed Saskatchewan-only equity Crowdfunding exemption (the Proposed Exemption) and requested public feedback with a comment period ending on November 6, 2013. Although the FCAA originally published a concept equity Crowdfunding proposal in July 13, 2013, it has now been […]




