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Advancing our clients’ ambitions: Representative H1 2022 transactions

Miller Thomson’s M&A and Capital Markets teams are pleased to highlight transactions from H1 2022 in “Advancing our Clients’ Ambitions”, showcasing the firm’s cross-industry depth and multi-jurisdictional capabilities.

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Geoff Mason discusses issues surrounding the federal holiday for the Queen’s funeral

980CKNW The Jas Johal Show

With September 19 announced as a federal holiday to commemorate the Queen’s funeral, Geoff Mason appears on The Jas Johal Show discussing the issues including whether workers are entitled to a paid day off: This is not a benefit that […]

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Straight Talk: Recent Trends in Canadian M&A (Issue 3, 2022)

Our Q3 2022 issue features a sector spotlight on ESG and interview with Partners Jason Kroft and Myron Mallia-Dare of the firm’s ESG and Carbon Finance practice.

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Myron Mallia-Dare and Cindy Kim co-write “ESG: Creating Value and Mitigating Risk In Mergers & Acquisitions”

Deal Points, Fall 2022

Myron Mallia-Dare and Cindy Kim co-wrote “ESG: Creating Value and Mitigating Risk In Mergers & Acquisitions,” featured in the Newsletter of the American Bar Association Mergers & Acquisitions Committee, Fall 2022. This article looks at how companies must consider environmental, […]

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Down rounds: What emerging companies should consider when raising in a slowing economy

Introduction Canada saw record levels of investment in 2021. The Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (CVCA) 2021 Market Overview reported 752 deals totaling $14.7 billion in venture capital investments in emerging Canadian companies that year – more than double […]

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Geoff Mason speaks to the legality of employer surveillance on The Jas Johal Show

980CKNW The Jas Johal Show

Geoff Mason discusses the use electronic monitoring tools to assess the productivity of employees who work remotely: On the employer side, it’s much easier to have some sort of monitoring policy in place if the employee’s been made aware of […]

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Québec privacy law: Certain provisions of the Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information take effect September 22, 2022

In our blog published October 12, 2021, we reported that Québec’s Bill 64, An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information, had received assent. As we wrote at the time, a majority of the changes […]

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Geoff Mason is a guest on The Jas Johal show, speaking on “quiet quitting”

980CKNW The Jas Johal Show

Geoff Mason joins Jas Johal for a conversation on “quiet quitting”, the concept where employees only perform the minimum requirements of their job. When you are seeing large-scale shifts happening in the employment world such as the great resignation, independent […]

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David Schnurr shares what companies need to know about IP in David Johnston Research + Technology Park article

David Johnston Research + Technology Park Tenant Stories

David Schnurr shares why startups need to get an early start on their patent strategy to protect their product, their company and to stay competitive in the long run. “There is a great deal to understand, such as the rules […]

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Competition Act amendments: A move to retrofit, modernize

The Lawyers Daily

Eric Dufour and Reema Mahbubani discuss the most recent amendments of the Canadian Competition Act in their article published in The Lawyers Daily. Effective June 23, 2022, sweeping and substantial changes to the Canadian Competition Act (the Act) came into […]

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