To achieve the best results for your clients in this challenging area, you must have a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of the panoply of rights and remedies available to shareholders, along with their limitations. This fully-updated version of an acclaimed program provides you with the tools you need.
Topics include:
- Oppression remedy review and update
- Including: trends in the courts’ approaches, the business judgment rule, and creative uses of the remedy
- Corporate governance considerations in shareholder disputes
- Including: fiduciary obligations among principals of closely held companies and interaction of fiduciary and oppression claims; conflicts of interest and due diligence requirements
- Resolving shareholder disputes outside court to preserve enterprise value
- Claims and interim remedies
- Including: interim management, use of monitors/inspectors, injunctive-type relief, non-competition and confidentiality obligations
- Accounting and valuation issues and solutions
- Including: role of financial experts; best approaches to developing settlement positions
- Strategies and tactics during the course of litigation
- Including: practical tips and strategies for bringing or responding to an application or action for an oppression remedy
- Alternative remedies under the Business Corporations Act: insolvency proceedings, windups and derivative actions
- Good faith since Bhasin: an update on implications for shareholder agreements and shareholder disputes
- Ethical and professional issues for counsel in shareholder disputes and litigation
Faculty
- Lisa C. Munro, Lerners LLP
- David Morritt, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
- Eric S. Block, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
- Allan D. Coleman, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
- Kenneth A. Dekker, Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP
- Paul N. Feldman, Feldman Lawyers
- Matthew P. Gottlieb, Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
- Aaron Hershtal, Kestenberg Siegal Lipkus LLP
- Jonathan Lisus, Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP
- Ari A. Lokshin, Lokshin Law Office
- Domenic Marino, CBV, CPA, CA, Partner, Consulting & Deals, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- Evan Thomas, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
- James C. Tory, Torys LLP
- Christine Wadsworth, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
- Peter Wardle, Wardle Daley Bernstein Bieber LLP
Agenda
Group Discounts and Financial Assistance
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Webcast Fee per Delegate
2-3 delegates: 25% off program fee
4-10 delegates: 30% off program fee
11+ delegates: 35% off program fee
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