Shareholder Disputes and the Closely Held Company: Rights and Remedies for Litigators and Corporate Advisors

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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

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Chairs

• 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

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