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SEC CTOs crowdsourced (or is it crowdsoused?) beer company offering
June 14th, 2011

The SEC recently issued a cease and desist order against two advertising executives in the first enforcement action targeting the use of social media to offer securities.Michael Migliozzi II and Brian William Flatow wanted to acquire the Pabst Brewing Company, but didn't have the $300 million they f... Read more »

SCOTUS clarifies materiality standard for corporate disclosure
May 10th, 2011

The recent US Supreme Court decision in Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano clarifies the materiality standard for corporate disclosure, and will be relevant to Canadian issuers.The case was an appeal of a motion to dismiss a securities fraud class action on the basis that the alleged misleading... Read more »

Feds 0-2 on constitutionality of draft securities law
April 5th, 2011

On the heels of the recent Alberta appellate decision striking down the proposed federal securities act, which I blogged about last month, the Quebec Court of appeal has released its own decision finding that the proposed law is unconstitutional. A link to the decision, which is only in French, is p... Read more »

Musings on the Alberta decision on federal securities legislation
March 14th, 2011

Last week, the Alberta Court of Appeal issued a ruling that the federal government did not have the power under the Constitution Act, 1867 to adopt federal securities legislation. The ruling was in response to a reference by the Alberta government challenging the federal legislation.The court began... Read more »

Random Thoughts on Regulating the Merged TMX-LSE
February 14th, 2011

It's not every day I get quoted in the Financial Post. Since I haven't posted for a while, I thought this was the perfect excuse to get back in the swim of things.My views were a little confused in the article. Whether this was due to incoherence on my part or editorial tweaking I don't know, but I'... Read more »

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