Reporting Requirements, Canada, Foreign Private Issuers

Concept Release: Foreign Private Issuers Under the SEC’s Microscope

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP on 7/9/2025

Do the U.S. securities law accommodations through the “foreign private issuer” (FPI) construct benefit the intended entities? That’s the fundamental question that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is analyzing...more

Foreign Private Issuers: Have You Assessed Your Status Under US Securities Laws? (UPDATED)

Troutman Pepper Locke on 7/1/2025

For foreign private issuers registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), there are several filing statuses that affect the content of various disclosures that must be made public. Foreign private issuers...more

Canadian Dual-Listed Company Insiders May Become Subject to U.S. Short-Swing Profit and Insider Reporting Rules

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP on 11/1/2023

Buried in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, which the U.S. Senate passed earlier this year, is a provision that, if enacted, will eliminate exemptions relied upon by insiders of dual-listed Canadian...more

SEC Adopts New Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules for U.S. Public Companies and Foreign Private Issuers

Stikeman Elliott LLP on 9/7/2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted new rules requiring the disclosure of cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and material incidents (the “Rules”), effective September 5, 2023. The Rules...more

OTCQX International Rule Changes Will Push Certain Canadian Companies to the OTCQB Tier

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 9/23/2021

The OTC Markets has published proposed rule changes that would, effective September 23, 2021, require that in order to be quoted on the OTCQX International, a company must either be an SEC reporting company, file reports with...more

Reporting Requirements › Canada › Foreign Private Issuers

Concept Release: Foreign Private Issuers Under the SEC’s Microscope

Foreign Private Issuers: Have You Assessed Your Status Under US Securities Laws? (UPDATED)

Canadian Dual-Listed Company Insiders May Become Subject to U.S. Short-Swing Profit and Insider Reporting Rules

SEC Adopts New Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules for U.S. Public Companies and Foreign Private Issuers

OTCQX International Rule Changes Will Push Certain Canadian Companies to the OTCQB Tier

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