Canadian Corporate & Securities Lawyer
De-Mystifying Minimum, Maximum, ‘Keep it All’ and ‘All or Nothing’ Offerings By Brian Koscak and Alixe Cormick Securities regulators and those active in the financial industry seem to have their own secret language. Sometimes it can be difficult for companies and investors to understand what it all means. In this article, we are going to […]
In Canada, an issuer does not have to provide an investor with a prospectus if an investor purchases, as principal, a security of a single issuer and pays $150,000 or more in cash at the time of the investment. This is a simple prospectus exemption that is based on a minimum investment amount (the MA […]
As Chair of the Private Capital Markets Association of Canada (PCMA), I am pleased to have contributed to the preparation and submission of the PCMA’s comment letter to the Canadian Securities Administrators (the CSA) about proposed changes to the accredited investor exemption (theAI exemption) and the minimum amount exemption (the MA exemption) as set out […]
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.This provides useful data, albeit Alberta-only data. The key statistics below are taken directly from Annex B Background – Local Experience with […]
