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GCR Guide to Data & Antitrust – Competition law and data
Miranda Cole and Francesco Salis from our Brussels office are the authors of a chapter on the evolving view of data in the application of competition law.
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Canada | Publication | March 2, 2021
Just in time for the 2021 proxy and continuous disclosure season, the Canadian securities regulators have published guidance for improved disclosures related to COVID-19. One year into the pandemic, boilerplate disclosure and descriptions of the impacts of COVID-19 without analysis will no longer pass muster with the regulators.
The February 25 publication is an update from disclosure guidance published in October 2020. Once again, the securities regulators set out in detail disclosure inadequacies in issuers’ MD&A and financial statements. They also highlight issues common to specific industries.
While issuers have been impacted in different ways by the COVID-19 pandemic, there are some common themes in the disclosure improvement guidance provided by the securities regulators:
While much of the focus of the securities regulators’ guidance relates specifically to financial statements and MD&A, the regulators also highlighted several broader areas of disclosure that are routinely singled out as requiring improvement:
In addition to the more general guidance highlighted above, the notice from the securities regulators includes specific disclosures examples, industry-specific observations and lists of issues to consider when preparing the annual disclosure documents. The publication is accessible here.
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Miranda Cole and Francesco Salis from our Brussels office are the authors of a chapter on the evolving view of data in the application of competition law.
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