News & Publications Archive

Rita Andreone, QC and Chat Ortved prepared a Q&A guide to "Corporate Governance and Directors' Duties in Canada: Overview." The Q&A gives a high level overview of board composition, the comply or explain approach, management rules and authority, directors’ duties and liabilities, transactions with directors and conflicts, company meetings, internal controls, accounts and audit, institutional investors and reform proposals.

Nicole Skuggedal and Katy Allen's article, "Class Action for Workplace Sexual Harassment Allowed to Proceed" was featured in Canadian HR Reporter's newsletter section, Canadian Employment Law Today.

Craig Ferris, QC, FCIArb. was quoted in a recent article in The Lawyer's Daily, "B.C. modernizes class action legislation; group looking into same for Ontario." This article discusses British Columbia's changes to modernize its legislation on class action proceedings and examines how this may lead to an increase in class actions.

Read the full article here.

On Thursday, April 12, 2018, Arbutus Biopharma Corporation (“Arbutus”), an industry-leading hepatitis B virus (HBV) therapeutic solutions company and Roivant Sciences Ltd. (“Roivant”) announced that they have entered into an agreement to launch Genevant Sciences (“Genevant”), a jointly-owned company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of a broad range of RNA-based therapeutics.

Craig Ferris, Q.C.,FCIArb has written a new Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Blog post entitled, "Transactional Common Interest Privilege Recognized by the Federal Court of Appeal" discussing the Federal Court of Appeal’s recent decision on common interest privilege in a transactional context.

This paper discusses contract law issues including decisions of relevance to commercial lawyers and business leaders giving a snapshot of particular principles of interest that arose in case law over the past 12 months.

Peter Roberts was quoted in The Lawyer's Daily article "B.C. condo ruling will ‘absolutely’ have impact outside province: lawyer" on Tuesday, January 9. The article discusses a recent British Columbia Supreme Court decision that said a minority of condo owners cannot block the sale of their building will have reverberations across the country.

Paul Negenman and Randy Madsen were featured in a Lexpert article that discussed Torxen Energy and Schlumberger Production Management (SPM)’s purchase of Palliser Block assets from Cenovus Energy Inc. for cash consideration of $1.3 billion. The deal closed on December 7, 2017.

Lawson Lundell LLP is pleased to announce the promotion of the following six associates who became partners as of January 1, 2018.