Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Securities

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The impact of share purchases, public offerings and stock exchanges is felt by more Canadian businesses and individuals than ever before, making securities law of increasing interest to lawyers in many diverse fields of practice. Understanding this area has always been a challenge, though, because the laws governing securities regulation in Canada are complex and multi-faceted. They are derived from such diverse sources as provincial and territorial securities statutes, regulations and rules, national and multilateral instruments and policy statements, notices and decisions of securities regulatory authorities, court decisions, and rules, policies and by-laws of stock exchanges and self-regulatory organizations.

Now, those seeking to understand this often inaccessible area of law can turn with confidence to Halsbury's Securities volume. Especially useful for lawyers who do not deal with securities issues in their day-to-day practices, this valuable reference provides a straightforward and integrated explanation of the regulation of securities in every Canadian jurisdiction. Topics covered in this essential reference include:

• Sources of securities law
• Regulatory authorities
• Harmonization and co-ordination
  • Passport system
  • Continuous disclosure requirements
  • Exemptive relief applications
  • Principal regulator system
  • Self-regulatory organizations
• Distribution and trading of securities
• Prospectus requirements
  • Form and content
  • Disclosure
  • Financial statements
  • Amendments, filing and review
  • Prospectus exempt distributions
  • Disclosure requirements
  • Proxies, information circulars, annual information forms
• Insider reporting and insider trading
• Corporate governance and audit committees
• Take-over and issuer bids
  • Procedures, obligations, restrictions, exemptions, defences
• Special transactions
  • Minority security holder protection
  • Disclosure and valuation requirements
  • Exemption and approval requirements
• Registration
• Statutory and common law civil liability
  • Insider trading and tipping
  • Secondary market disclosure
• Enforcement
• Stock exchanges
  
  And much more.
  
  Features
  
  
• Enhanced contents
  • A general table of contents to the level of chapter headings
  • A detailed table of contents to the level of clause headings
  • Detailed sectional contents set out within the commentary for each chapter and section
• References and abbreviations - an alphabetical listing of special references and abbreviations used in the volume, with an explanation of their meaning
• Selected secondary sources - setting out selected texts, articles, and other secondary sources pertaining to the subject that the reader may find to be relevant and helpful
• Glossary of definitions - identifying words and phrases defined in the various rules of civil procedure across Canada, and providing the text of the definition in each jurisdiction for easy reference. A valuable "quick reference" in a field marked by a wide variety of statutes promulgated across many jurisdictions
  
  Plus
  
  
• Table of cases
• Table of statutes and statutory instruments
• List of related titles
• Index

Table of Contents

I. Canadian Securities Laws
II. Distribution of Securities
III. Prospectus Distributions
IV. Prospectus Exempt Distributions
V. Continuous Disclosure
VI. Insider Reporting and Insider Trading
VII. Corporate Governance
VIII. Take-Over Bids and Issuer Bids
IX. Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions
X. Registration
XI. Civil Liability
XII. Enforcement
XIII. Stock Exchanges
Author/Contributor

Vaughn MacLellan, B.Comm., LL.B., LL.M.

Vaughn MacLellan, B.Comm., LL.B., LL.M., is a partner with Wildeboer Dellelce LLP, a Toronto-based securities and corporate finance law firm, who specializes in securities, corporate finance and corporate-commercial law. Mr. MacLellan received his B.Comm. from Dalhousie University in 1990, his LL.B. from the University of New Brunswick in 1995, and his LL.M. from the University of London (London School of Economics and Political Science) in 1996. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1999 and the Nova Scotia bar in 1997. Mr. MacLellan is a member of the Ontario Policy Advisory Committee of the TSX Venture Exchange and a director of various public companies.

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