Torys LLP

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Torys LLP is an international business law firm with 300 legal professionals in its New York and Toronto offices. Torys is known for its seamless cross-border services in a range of areas, including mergers and acquisitions; corporate and capital markets; litigation and dispute resolution; restructuring and insolvency; taxation; competition and antitrust; environmental, health and safety; debt finance and lending; project development and finance; managed assets; private equity and venture capital; financial institutions; pension and employment; intellectual property; technology and communications; life sciences; real estate; infrastructure and energy; climate change; and personal client services.

Business Acquisitions, Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions, International Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Acquisitions, Merger Reorganization, Mergers and Acquisitions, Mergers and Acquisitions Finance, Spin-Offs, Capital Markets, Derivatives, Financial Services Law, International Capital Markets, Mutual Funds, International Securities, Private Placement, Public Offerings, Public Securities, Securities Offerings, Securities Regulation, Shareholder Agreements, Shareholder Remedies, Shareholders Rights, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Finance, Asset-Based Finance, Commercial Finance, Cross Border Finance, Debt and Equity Finance, Debt Finance, Commercial Real Estate Finance, Technology and Science, Banks and Banking, Aircraft Finance, Sports Law, Computer and Software, Taxation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Shareholders Disputes, Constitutional Law, Class Actions, Human and Civil Rights, Professional Liability, Bankruptcy, Debtor and Creditor, Debt Restructuring, Insolvency, Environmental Law, Investment Management Telecommunications.

Amended Short-Selling Orders and Additional Rule Changes to Increase Liquidity in the United States and Canada
Leslie McCallum, October 1, 2008
The OSC and SEC have issued temporary orders prohibiting short selling of certain financial companies' common equity securities until October 3, 2008. Thirteen Canadian cross-border issuers, listed in Appendix A to this bulletin, are affected by the OSC's order. The SEC's order affects all U.S. and...

The Corporate Plaintiff: Litigating for Profit?
Andrew M. Shaughnessy, September 28, 2008, previously published by Torys LLP for Canadian Corporate Counsel Association's 20th Annual Meeting, Quebec City on August 18, 2008
To those who fall between the categories of the very rich and the very poor, the cost of litigation is prohibitive. In his novel Bleak House, Charles Dickens centred his plot on Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, litigation in connection with an estate. After years of litigation, during which the parties died...

Update on Short-Selling Orders and Additional Rule Changes to Increase Liquidity in the United States and Canada
Leslie McCallum, September 28, 2008
The OSC and SEC have issued temporary orders prohibiting short selling of certain financial companies' securities until October 3, 2008. Thirteen Canadian cross-border issuers, listed in Appendix A to this memo, are affected by the OSC's order. The SEC's order affects all U.S. and non-U.S. banks,...

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