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Represented the purchaser, Avant-Garde Sécurité Inc., in its acquisition of all the shares of Consultants S.P.I. Inc.

Introduced in Quebec’s National Assembly on February 18, 2015 by the Minister of Employment and Social Solidarity, Bill 34 – An Act to amend the Supplemental Pension Plans Act with respect to the funding and restructuring of certain multi-employer pension plans (“Bill 34”) has completely transformed the legislative rules applicable to multi-employer pension plans.

The general principle is that security granted on tangible property also charges the property’s accessories. That is not the case however when intellectual property (“IP”) rights belonging to a third party attach to inventory. For such rights are not considered to be accessories and thus are not charged by the security, unless the holder of the IP rights has otherwise agreed.

Contractors are generally required to produce statutory declarations and quittances as a precondition for receiving progress payments and the release of their holdback.

Protecting information contained in an email, information that falls under the right to confidentiality, is no easy task. You simply can’t store an email in a double-locked filling cabinet – although digital, it will always leave traces.

The fundamental importance of solicitor-client privilege and of lawyers’ duty of loyalty to their clients was confirmed once again by the Supreme Court of Canada on February 13, 2015, with its highly anticipated decision in Canada (Attorney General) v. Federation of Law Societies of Canada.