Effective January 1st, 2015, a new regulation came into force in Ontario under the existing Estate Administration Tax Act which has increased an estate trustee’s role in reporting the value of estate assets to the Ontario Ministry of Finance. The following is a brief overview of some of the changes…
Kelly Santini LLP acted for Ottawa-based Cloudlink on its recent sale to US based EMC Corporation. Cloudlink provides data security for customers transferring information between online platforms. The Kelly Santini team was comprised of Bob Ford, Michael Leaver and Christina Lachance. For more information on the sale, please see coverage…
Your company’s corporate structure may be the same as the day you opened your doors or it may have evolved over time. Either way, while your current structure may have made sense in the past, it may not be ideal for the purpose of selling your business. The following is…
Legal oversight of major transactions vastly reduces the chances of forgery Anyone who has been through a house purchase, re-financing or loan application will be familiar with the regular request from lawyers for proof of identification. While at times it may seem like overkill, there are many reasons why we go…
Lavrijsen Campgrounds v Eileen Reville, Steven Reville and Douglas Reville (2015 ONSC 103) offers the first significant pronouncement on the duty of honesty in contractual performance recently established in Bhasin v Hrynew (see Honesty is the best policy when it comes to commercial contracts). In this case, the parties negotiated…
As corporations operate on a system of majority rule, check a shareholder holding a significant number of shares has the power to manipulate corporate activity, there potentially at the expense of minority shareholders. As a result, the rights of minority shareholders are protected to ensure that they are not overlooked…
Congratulations to Sean Bawden whose employment law blog ‘Labour Pains’ was named best practitioner blog in the Canadian Law Blog Awards (aka – the Clawbies). Sean’s blog was selected from over 500 law blogs published in Canada and ‘Labour Pains’ was named best of the 43 employment law blogs. Since…
“Do I have a case for wrongful dismissal?” This page is one attempt to put together a, perhaps much-too-simplified, explanation of what “wrongful dismissal” under Ontario law means. I will start with this caveat, explaining wrongful dismissal, and more to the point explaining the nuances of any one individual’s situation…
