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Private M&A 2024: Key Trends and Forecasts
Patent Considerations in View of the Nearshoring Trends to the Americas
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The Great Green North: A Discussion on Canada’s Environmental Regulations
Dans l’affaire Vento Motorcycles, Inc. v. Mexico (l« affaire Vento »), la Cour d’appel de l’Ontario (la « CAO ») a annulé une sentence prononcée par une formation arbitrale (la « sentence »), en raison d’une crainte...more
La Cour d’appel de l’Ontario (la « CAO ») a récemment rendu sa décision dans l’affaire Aroma Franchise Company, Inc. v. Aroma Espresso Bar Canada Inc. (l’« affaire Aroma »). Cette décision vient non seulement clarifier le...more
In Aroma Franchise Company, Inc. v Aroma Espresso Bar Canada Inc., 2024 ONCA 839, the Court of Appeal for Ontario confirmed that arbitrator disclosures and arbitrator disqualification under Article 12(1) of the UNCITRAL Model...more
The Court of Appeal for Ontario (Court) recently issued its ruling in Aroma Franchise Company, Inc. v. Aroma Espresso Bar Canada Inc. (Aroma). The decision clarifies the law governing an arbitrator’s duty to disclose...more
Last week, the Ontario Court of Appeal released its decision Lochan v Binance Holdings Limited, 2024 ONCA 784 [Binance], in which it refused to stay a class action proceeding in favour of arbitration. In doing so, the Court...more
Dans l’affaire Clayton v. Canada (Attorney General), la Cour d’appel de l’Ontario (la « CAO ») a rejeté une tentative de faire annuler une sentence arbitrale pour des motifs liés à la compétence du tribunal arbitral et à...more
In Clayton v. Canada (Attorney General), the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed an attempt to set aside an arbitral award on jurisdictional and public policy grounds, confirming that the grounds on which arbitral awards may be...more
The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in RH20 North America Inc v Bergmann, 2024 ONCA 445 serves as useful reminder that a party can inadvertently waive its right to arbitrate a dispute if the party takes a step in the...more
A recent decision of the Alberta Court of King’s Bench in Orica Canada Inc v ARVOS GmbH, 2024 ABKB 97 [Orica] has attracted considerable attention among members of the arbitration bar. In it, the Court of King’s Bench...more
In Lochan v Binance Holdings Limited, 2023 ONSC 6714 (Binance), the Ontario Superior Court dismissed a motion brought by Binance Holdings Limited (Binance), the world’s largest crypto trading platform, to stay a proposed...more
Dans l’affaire Vento Motorcycles, Inc. v United Mexican States, la Cour supérieure de justice de l’Ontario (la « Cour ») a rejeté une demande d’annulation de sentence arbitrale (la « sentence ») rendue par un tribunal composé...more
In Vento Motorcycles, Inc. v. United Mexican States, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Court) rejected an application to set aside an arbitral award (the Award), which a three-arbitrator Tribunal issued, on the basis of...more
UN Member States Adopt Code of Conduct for Arbitrators in Investor-State Disputes - At its 56th annual session held in Vienna in July 2023, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) formally...more
Une partie à un litige peut-elle produire de nouveaux éléments de preuve dans le cadre d’une requête visant l’annulation d’une décision d’un tribunal d’arbitrage sur sa compétence pour entendre un différend? Selon la décision...more
Can litigants introduce fresh evidence on an application to set aside a decision of an arbitral tribunal about whether it has jurisdiction to hear a dispute? According to the Ontario Court of Appeal’s recent decision in...more
In the recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Husky Food Importers & Distributors Ltd. v. JH Whittaker & Sons Limited, 2023 ONCA 260, the Court addressed the question of what standard of proof a party would need to meet...more
Commercial arbitration is widely perceived as a pathway to obtaining a final and binding decision (styled as an "award") that is not subject to appeal. However, this is not always the case in Canada. The degree of finality of...more
Le 1er juillet 2022, des modifications apportées aux règlements du Centre international pour le règlement des différends relatifs aux investissements (le « CIRDI ») sont entrées en vigueur (les « modifications »). Membre...more
On July 1, 2022, amendments to the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) rules and regulations came into effect. ICSID, one of the organizations of the World Bank Group, is an institution for...more
In a “rare inversion of a typical problem,” the case of Electek Power Services Inc. v Greenfield Energy Centre Limited Partnership, contains an overview of the relevant principles applicable to the determination of an...more
The Ontario trial court has once again emphasized that an application to set aside an arbitral award under Article 34 of the Model Law is not to be used as an opportunity to reargue the merits of the claim. Under Article...more
On April 9, 2018, the Government of British Columbia introduced Bill 11, International Commercial Arbitration Amendment Act, to amend the International Commercial Arbitration Act (ICAA), which has been in effect since 1996....more
Two recent decisions reinforce the willingness of Ontario courts to enforce arbitration clauses, apply the competence-competence doctrine and refer any disputes regarding an arbitrator’s jurisdiction to the arbitrator for...more
Effective March 22, 2017, Ontario enacted the International Commercial Arbitration Act, 2017 (ICAA), replacing a previous version of the law that had been in effect since 2006. The new ICAA includes changes which are designed...more
In an earlier post we provided advice on how to interpret the words “may” and “must” when they appear in arbitration clauses that are to be interpreted under U.S. law. Among other things, we explained that an arbitration...more