Dec. 19, 2024 - Despite a strong start to the year, activist activity in Canada in 2024 tapered to pre-pandemic levels. This reversion to more historic annual totals follows a notable resurgence of shareholder demands directed at Canadian public companies in 2023, when shareholder engagement reached its...
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Governance Insights: 10 Legal Updates GCs, Boards and Investors Need to Know
The latest edition of Davies’ Governance Insights is now available. In this issue, we review 10 developments that general counsel and directors of Canadian public companies, and their investors, should know for 2025 and beyond.
These developments include the growing importance of board oversight duties, a potentially significant change to issuers’ timely disclosure obligations, the enduring presence of activists in the Canadian marketplace and the expanding regulatory and governance focus on the management of AI technologies.
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