McCarthy Tétrault LLP

General Practice, Administrative and Regulatory Law, Antirust and Competition, Banking and Financial Institutions, Bankruptcy and Restructuring, Biotechnology, Business, Capital Markets, Class Actions, Communications, Competition, Constitutional Law and Charter of Rights, Construction Law, Contracts, Corporate Finance, Criminal, Debtor and Creditor, Education Law, Energy, Entertainment, Environmental, Family, Health Law, Hospitality, Immigration, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International, Internet and Electronic Commerce, Labour and Employment, Litigation, Medical Malpractice, Mergers and Acquisitions, Mining, Municipal, Natural Resources, Occupational Health and Safety, Professional Negligence and Liability, Project Finance, Real Estate, Securities, Tax, Technology Law, Telecommunications, Trade, Trusts and Estates.

Don’t Mess with Texas - The Supreme Court of the United States Reaffirms Deference to Administrative Tribunals
Ronald Podolny, June 18, 2013
In City of Arlington, Texas v. Federal Communications Commission, 569 U.S. (2013), the unanimous Supreme Court of the United States clarified the limits of judicial deference to administrative tribunals’ decisions. In doing so, it reaffirmed a conceptual rift between Canadian and American...

The Second Opinion: Presto! The UK Supreme Court Holds the Corporate Veil Can Disappear in Prest v. Petrodel Resources
Brandon Kain, June 18, 2013
The UK Supreme Court has released an important new judgment addressing the ability of judges to “pierce the corporate veil”: Prest v Petrodel Resources Ltd, [2013] UKSC 34. The ruling in Prest follows on the heels of the same Court’s decision a few months ago in VTB Capital Plc v...

Canada Announces New Initiative for Disclosure of Payments to Governments
John W. Boscariol,Zachary Masoud,Brenda C. Swick, June 17, 2013
On June 12, 2013, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the introduction of a new transparency initiative in Canada that will require Canadian companies in the extractive industries, including mining, oil and gas, to disclose their payments made to domestic and foreign governments.

Return to the McCarthy Tétrault LLP Firm Overview