Canadian Corporate & Securities Lawyer
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 […]
On March 20, 2014, the Canadian Securities Administrators created significant buzz by proposing rules which would allow investors in large parts of the country to participate in equity crowdfunding. Securities regulators in each of Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan (the Participating Jurisdictions) published for comment proposed Multilateral Instrument 45-108 Crowdfunding Prospectus […]
By Brian Koscak and Alixe Cormick An offering memorandum (OM) must contain all information material to the investment opportunity to enable an investor to make an informed investment decision. What information is material depends on the specific business and investment opportunity of an issuer. Under Canadian securities laws, an issuer must ensure there is no […]
By: Brian Koscak, Jonathan Fleisher, Alison Manzer and Michael Brown The Canadian Securities Administrators (the CSA) have published for comment proposed amendments (the 2014 Proposals) to National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus and Registration Exemptions (NI 45-106). The 2014 Proposals seek to: amend the existing prospectus exemption relating to short-term debt securities by imposing different credit rating […]
