GILTI Conscience Podcast | Spotlight Series: An Evolution of Workplace Diversity and Acceptance
The third quarter of 2024 saw big deals, some encouraging trends and lower interest rates in Canada's M&A market. Dealmakers continue to show their creativity to bridge the valuation gap between buyers and sellers. We look at...more
The first half of 2023 saw a significant increase in business insolvencies as economic sectors responded to uncertain financial conditions in Canada and around the world. In this issue of Davies Insolvency Now, we examine...more
Howard Sacarob, head of U.S. tax at Royal Bank of Canada and executive sponsor of RBC’s PRIDE employee resource group, joined Nate Carden, David Farhat and our “GILTI Conscience” team to discuss the importance of allyship in...more
The Royal Bank of Canada announced that this year it will begin incorporating ESG considerations into incentive compensation plans for the bank’s CEO and other top executives. In particular, the bank plans to take ESG...more
U.S. Developments - DOJ Seizes More Than $1 Billion in Cryptocurrency from Silk Road Hacker - On November 5, the U.S. Department of Justice (the DOJ) announced that it seized more than 69,000 Bitcoin, now worth more than $1...more
What can companies expect from their funding sources as COVID-19 does damage to the economy? In at least some instances, perhaps, opportunistic attempts by lenders to illegally take control of business assets....more
Justice R. Graesser of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta (Court) recently released his decision in Royal Bank of Canada v. Reid-Built Homes Ltd. (Decision), where he held that the Court has the discretion, but not the...more
In Belle Meade Title & Escrow Corp. v. Fifth Third Bank, et al., No. 3:17-cv-874, ECF No. 26, — WL —- (M.D. Tenn. Oct. 17, 2017), a federal district court granted Regions Bank’s motion to dismiss the claims against it,...more
Blockchain, the peer-to-peer distributed ledger technology introduced in 2008 to support Bitcoin, has lately attracted attention for its potential uses in areas unrelated to the virtual currency. A recent Harvard Business...more
The federal private sector privacy regime operates on a consent basis. Unless an exception is applicable consent is needed to collect, use or disclose personal information of another. That consent can be express or implied....more