Size Threshold News Today

New features are making a big impact on small components.

Canada’s proposed “modern slavery” legislation – the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act (“New Act”) – is currently awaiting consideration by the House...

<p><span>The Commission’s Division of Data has today issued a no-action letter providing approximately six additional months for market participants to work through challenges associated with complying with the amendments to swap data reporting regulations recently adopted by the Commission.</span><span> I believe the Staff’s action is appropriate. Market participants represent that they need this additional time to overcome ...

The Competition Bureau the 2021 transaction-size pre-merger notification threshold under the Competition Act is decreasing to C$93 million, effective February 13, 2021. Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada also announced new, lower foreign investment review thresholds under the Investment Canada Act, effective January 1, 2021. These thresholds are adjusted annually based on GDP formulas. As a consequence, they generally increase each year. This years decrease in merger review thr...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The Government of Canada has announced updates to the transaction size thresholds for review under the  Competition Act and  Investment Canada Act. The updated thresholds decreased slightly under both acts from the 2020 thresholds, which may result in more transactions that will be subject to review than there were last year. Competition Act Transactions that exceed both the (i) transactio...