By: Brian Koscak, Alison Manzer, Jonathan Fleisher 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 . The 2014 Proposals seek to amend the existing prospectus exemption for short-term debt securities by imposing different credit rating requirements and […]
Proposed Short-Term Debt Exemption in Canada – A Chart Simplifying the Credit Rating Requirement
This is a follow-up to a recently posted blog on January 30, 2014 titled, “Changes Proposed for Exempt Offerings of Short-Term Debt and Securitized Products in Canada.” The designated rating provision under the existing Short-Term Debt Exemption in Section 2.35 of National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus and Registration Exemptions (NI 45-106) requires an issuer of short-term […]
Changes Proposed for Exempt Offerings of Short-Term Debt and Securitized Products in Canada
The Canadian Securities Administrators (the “CSA”) have published for comment proposed amendments (the “Proposal”) to National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus and Registration Exemptions (“NI 45-106”). The Proposal seeks to: amend the existing prospectus exemption relating to short-term debt securities (the “Short-Term Debt Exemption”); and create a new prospectus exemption for the sale of short-term securitized products […]
Changing Your Mind: Part I – Two Day Cancellation Rights under the Offering Memorandum Exemption
By Alixe Cormick and Brian Koscak Do you not hate shopping in stores that will not let you return items? We have all purchased an item we were excited to acquire, but then changed our mind and returned it the following day. Return policies in retail stores vary from no returns allowed, to bring us […]
The Offering Memorandum Exemption in a Nutshell
By Brian Koscak and Alixe Cormick The offering memorandum exemption (the OM exemption) in Section 2.9 of National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus and Registration Exemptions (NI 45 106) allows issuers to sell to anyone regardless of their income, net worth, investment amount, or relationship to the principles of the issuer. Everyone an issuer could solicit in […]