Canadian Corporate & Securities Lawyer
Effective May 1, 2014, all new registered dealers and advisors across Canada, except in Quebec, must take reasonable steps to ensure that the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI) will be the independent dispute resolution or mediation service that is made available to a client that has an eligible complaint. For more information about OBSI […]
New dispute resolution and mediation requirements recently came into effect for registered securities dealers and advisors in Canada, such as exempt market dealers and portfolio managers. This article discusses 14 things you should now about them and the appointment of the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI) as the provider of those services. 1. Effective […]
On March 20, 2014, the Alberta Securities Commission (the ASC) published statistics about the use of the offering memorandum exemption in s. 2.9 of National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus and Registration Exemptions (the OM Exemption) for the Province of Alberta. Unfortunately, there is no national database where all this information exists for each Canadian jurisdiction. Not […]
This is Part II of my article titled “Offering Memorandum Exemption Finally Proposed in Ontario! Other Regulators Also Mulling Changes. ” This article discusses some of the issues and concerns about the proposed changes to the OM Exemption contemplated by certain Canadian securities regulators. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in this article have been defined in Part […]
On March 20, 2014, the Ontario Securities Commission (the OSC) published for comment a long awaited proposal for a new offering memorandum exemption in Ontario based on a variant of the Alberta model as set out in Section 2.9 of National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus and Registration Exemptions (the OM Exemption). On the same date, Canadian […]
