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Jan 7, 2025 | mondaq.com | Patricia Olasker |Ghaith S. Sibai |Sébastien Roy

Despite a strong start to the year, activist activity in Canadain 2024 tapered to pre-pandemic levels. This reversion to morehistoric annual totals follows a notable resurgence of shareholderdemands directed at Canadian public companies in 2023, whenshareholder engagement reached its highest levels sincerecord-setting 2018. The passing of another year invites reflection on the trendscurrently animating the Canadian activism space.

Dec 8, 2023 | lexology.com | Patricia Olasker |Brett Seifred |Franziska Ruf |Jeffrey Nadler |Brandon Orr |Ghaith S. Sibai | +6 more

Get Smart on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Corporate Governance: Key Considerations for Boards of DirectorsOn November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT—a conversational, generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot trained on OpenAI’s foundational large language models—arguably catalyzing today’s new wave of interest in AI.

Nov 21, 2023 | mondaq.com | Patricia Olasker |Ghaith S. Sibai |Mathieu Taschereau

Davies' Shareholder Activism and Proxy Contests in Canada guide draws on our market-leading expertise to offer our insights on the principal legal and practical considerations for both activists and target companies, as well as notable recent developments and key differences between Canadian and U.S. requirements. As a top Bloomberg-ranked Canadian law firm in activism, Davies is involved in many of the country's high-stakes contests.

Nov 16, 2023 | lexology.com | Patricia Olasker |Sébastien Roy |Ghaith S. Sibai |Mathieu Taschereau |Rachel Park |Brandon Orr

To view this article you need a PDF viewer such as Adobe Reader. If you can't read this PDF, you can view its text here. Go back to the PDF. CanadaNovember 16 202301. Applicable Rules In Canada, the rules governing shareholder activism are derived from four principal sources: the target’s corporate statute and constating documents, securities legislation, common law and stock exchange rules.

Oct 23, 2023 | mondaq.com | Patricia Olasker |Mathieu Taschereau |Ghaith S. Sibai

Canadian shareholder activism continued its post-pandemic resurgence into the first half of 2023. Emerging trends include the "activist swarm," where multiple—yet uncoordinated—activists converge on a single target with competing demands. Activism has also been on the rise in response to M&A transactions, with some attracting swarms of their own. Another trend to watch is whether larger cap companies will continue to be disproportionately targeted by activists.