Publication
Competition Act: Expanded private enforcement rights now in force
On Friday, June 20, 2025, Competition Act amendments came into force that significantly expand private parties’ ability to bring cases to the Competition Tribunal.
Launch of Capital Markets Union (CMU) technical resource
Global | Publication | December 2015
Raising finance in Europe is changing. Our online technical resource ‘Capital Markets Union’ (CMU) is a complete client guide to the legal and practical measures that fall under the umbrella of the CMU.
The European Commission’s CMU initiative aims to unify capital markets across Europe’s 28 Member States in an effort to promote growth and investment. From now through 2019, the Commission will release a series of regulations and studies affecting every area of capital markets.
CMU will affect clients across the global with business interests in the European Union, including banks, funds, insurers, pensions, infrastructure projects, SMEs, credit rating agencies and multilateral development agencies.
The following resources will be updated as the CMU project develops:
- Prospectus Regulation proposal
- Private placements
- Venture capital
- SME finance
- Crowdfunding.
- Securitisation Regulation proposal
- STS securitisation practical guide
- Securitisation – risk retention Q&A
- Solvency II recalibration
- Infrastructure funds
- Non-bank lending
- Pensions
- Retail finance.
- Regulation of financial services
- Covered bonds
- Investment funds
- Derivatives, repos and securities lending
- Cross-border finance.
Recent publications
Publication
Proposed repeal and replacement of NI 43-101: Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects: Update
On June 12, the Canadian Securities Administrators published a proposed replacement of National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects and its related companion policy and form of technical report.
Publication
Competition Bureau releases final guideline on “Environmental claims and the Competition Act”
Canada’s Competition Bureau recently released the final version of its guideline on “Environmental claims and the Competition Act” that is intended to help businesses ensure their environmental claims comply with the Competition Act’s deceptive marketing provisions that came into force last June.
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