Stewart McKelvey

About this office:

Stewart McKelvey is an Atlantic Canadian law firm offering legal services through six offices located in the Provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. A law firm in Atlantic Canada with more than 220 lawyers, Stewart McKelvey offers services in all areas of the law to local, regional, national and international clients. The practice of the firm touches every corner of business and industry in Atlantic Canada. The firm's lawyers appear before Municipal, Provincial and Federal boards and tribunals and all levels of courts in Canada.

Advocacy Department; Business Disputes; Construction Law; Labour And Employment; Marine Law; Business Department; Business Transactions; IP/IT/Entertainment; Owner Managed Businesses; Commercial Real Property & Lending; Life & Disability Insurance; Natural Resources & Environmental; Tax, Estates & Trusts.

A New Regime for Venture Issuers
Tauna Staniland,Gavin Stuttard, September 22, 2011
The Canadian Securities Administrators (the "CSA") have proposed significant changes to the disclosure rules applicable to venture issuers, which should reduce disclosure burdens for venture issuers including the large number of junior mining companies and early stage technology companies...

Best Efforts - A Recipe for Dispute
Tauna Staniland, September 22, 2011
Contracting parties often need to deal with conditions and obligations that are not fully within their control.

NL Court Grants $200,000 Claim and Dismisses $20,000,000 Counterclaim on Summary Trial
Jonathan D. Dale, April 12, 2011
As recently evidenced in Murphy v. Crosshair Exploration & Mining Corp., summary trial can, in the right circumstances, be a useful means of having contentious commercial matters determined by the Court in a quicker and cheaper way than conventional trial.

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