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If you are or will be serving as a director of a Canadian corporation, you will need The Directors Manual. Widely regarded as 'the bible' for directors in Canada, it gives you a plain language overview of the duties, responsibilities, and liabilities you face as a director. In particular, it discusses the potential liability of directors under corporate law, securities regulation, tax, trade practices, labour standards law, and environmental protection legislation. The Manual also includes useful precedents, selected legislation relating to corporate directors, plus numerous checklists and practical tips on how to manage your role as a director, including the associated risks.

Relevant commentary is provided on the following topics:

• Corporate Governance
• Formal Provisions
• Corporate Finance
• Duties and Powers
• Takeover Bids
• Disclosure
• Remuneration of Directors
• Meetings
• Financial Information
• Controls and Sanctions
• Risk Management
• Environmental Liability
• Unlawful Trade Practices
• Not-for-Profit Corporations
• Financial Institutions
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency

Included with your subscription is Directors' Briefing, a newsletter published three times annually containing feature articles, digests of recent cases, and updates to legislation that affect the duties, responsibilities, and liabilities of corporate directors in Canada.

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IT Lawyer Éloïse Gratton addresses the emerging issues created by the new privacy laws and cutting-edge online and wireless technologies. Help your clients who operate or host websites, are involved in e-commerce or online advertising take advantage of the Internet and mobile technologies while still respecting consumers' privacy.

Topics covered

• Website privacy compliance, online advertising, spam and e-commerce privacy issues
• the European and North American legal framework
• mobile services, tracking technology and privacy issues
• translating the legal framework into best business practices

About the Author

Éloïse Gratton LL.B., LL.M. is a leading expert in new media and privacy issues and is Counsel to the firm for information technology issues. She is also pursuing a PhD degree at the University of Montreal and Université de Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). She also acts as privacy officer for our Montreal office. She was previously partner at McMillan (Corporate Law group) which she joined in 2002. Prior to joining the firm, she acted as Director of Corporate & Legal Affairs for a wireless technology company.

Publication Year: 2003

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Published: November 2003

Considering going public? Concerned about the risks? Want to know more about the advantages?

The decision to go public is not an easy one. It can be a time-consuming and expensive process and the company becomes subject to a host of ongoing requirements. However, management at most companies who've gone public would say that it was worth the effort and expense.

Getting and Staying Listed: A Primer for Public Company Executives and their Professional Advisors discusses the pros and cons of going public, along with a description of the process. Throughout, extensive footnotes help you locate the rules easily. The chapter breakdown allows you to find the relevant material quickly. Its scope is national, with all applicable securities legislation and rules of the three Canadian marketplaces covered: the Toronto Stock Exchange, the TSX Venture Exchange, and the Canadian Trading and Quotation System.

About the Author
Timothy S. Baikie LL.B., B.C.L., LL.M., is head counsel to the Canadian Trading and Quotation System Inc. (CNQ) and has played an instrumental role in shaping its rules and policies.

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This newsletter is essential reading for anyone concerned with environmental issues and this rapidly developing field of legal study. Legal practitioners, policy advisors, academics, scientists, planners, and business people will find informative articles on essential topics related to environmental law, policy, and key business issues such as climate change/ global warming, environmental remediation, new technologies, and other business opportunities, legislation, regulations, enforcement, and events.

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Corporate governance continues to be a very hot topic, as directors’ actions and omissions come under increasing scrutiny from regulators, stakeholders, the media, and observers.

The 5th Edition of Directors’ Duties in Canada is a completely updated and enhanced, practical guide to what directors’ duties are, best practices in discharging those duties, and how directors can protect themselves from embarrassment and liability.

The book includes consideration of:

• Directors’ duties in the context of public and private companies, Crown corporations, and not-for-profit organizations
• Directors’ duties with respect to employment laws, pension plans, and mutual funds
• Risk management issues, including financial and operational, information technology, intellectual property, insolvency, environmental, and social media risks
• Proxy contests, including consideration of why they begin, how to avoid them, how to prepare for them, and how to fight them to win
• How to build a great board, and what a director candidate should consider before accepting an invitation to join a board
• Shareholder rights plans (poison pills) and other defensive tactics, and directors’ responsibilities generally in the context of hostile takeover bids
• Special committees and how to operate them effectively
• Director-level considerations in corporate finance • what corporate social responsibility means to and for directors today
• Internal investigations and how to conduct them
• The roles of the corporate secretary and of minutes in the governance and director protection process
• Actionable precedents, including sample board and committee mandates, key governance policies, and board evaluation templates
• Best practices for directors in determining to join or resign from a board, in obtaining satisfactory indemnification, and directors’ and officers’ insurance

About the Author
Barry Reiter’s practice focuses on corporate finance, development, and governance.

Barry advises boards, directors, and management on governance issues. As Chair of the Bennett Jones LLP Corporate Governance and Director Protection Practice, he is an experienced director and has chaired boards and a variety of board committees. Formerly a law professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto (1974-1982) and recognized as one of Canada’s 100 Most Creative Lawyers, Barry has published books and articles on corporate governance, advisory boards, joint ventures, contracts, real estate, and the legal process.

Bennett Jones LLP has over 400 legal professionals in the Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Ottawa, Beijing, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi offices. Their professional practice encompasses virtually every sector of business, industry, and government.

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This newsletter summarizes emerging issues that affect the duties, responsibilities, and liabilities of corporate directors in Canada.

Update Frequency: Three times annually

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This book provides corporations with valuable information about the benefits of alternative dispute resolution and how to apply ADR techniques and processes in the business environment. It offers both a theoretical and practical guide to ADR and the process of system design, exploring specific tools to engage in system design analysis and implementation. This text offers a model dispute resolution design system process with step-by-step explanations of disputes, ADR processes and how to implement the various processes within the business structure. Discontinued

Publication Year: 1999

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The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) issues income tax interpretation bulletins (ITs) to provide technical interpretations and positions regarding certain provisions contained in income tax law. Due to their technical nature, ITs are used primarily by CRA staff and tax specialists. An interpretation or position contained in an IT generally applies as of the date on which it was published, unless otherwise specified.

If you seek to provide the optimal solution on income tax related matters, then you need these invaluable resources. Income Tax Bulletins, Circulars, and Technical News is the only comprehensive print reference book that consolidates the Canada Revenue Agency's interpretations of the Income Tax Act; CRA procedures, practices, and administration policies; and CRA's position on recent court decisions. It offers three separate indexes to assist you in searching for the information you need fast.

• The Topical Index references specific topics of interest.
• The Sectional Index allows you to search for a document applicable to a provision in the Income Tax Act
• The Numerical Finding Index references the exact page of the circular, bulletin, or technical news that you need

This reference book is produced annually. The 2010 edition is consolidated to May 31, 2010.

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Available: April 2012

Comprehensively analyzes all the tax laws applicable to individual retirement accounts. The first part of the book discusses the 15 different types of IRAs, including the four most recent types authorized by the tax laws: the Roth IRA, the education IRA, the SIMPLE IRA, and the deemed IRA. The second part discusses the various areas of tax law relating to the operation and administration of an IRA. There is a separate chapter on each area of the tax law. The third part of the book deals with taxation of distributions from an IRA, including premature distributions, minimum distributions during lifetime and after death, withholding taxes, and estate taxes. It also deals with the tax rules applicable to the different types of the beneficiaries receiving distributions from an IRA, including foreign beneficiaries, charitable beneficiaries, trust beneficiaries, estate beneficiaries, spouse and nonspouse beneficiaries, and individual and non-individual beneficiaries.

Related books:

• Federal Estate & Gift Taxes: Code & Regulations (Including Related Income Tax Provisions), As of 03/2012
• Estate Planning (2013 Edition) (U.S.) 
• U.S. Master Estate and Gift Tax Guide (2013) 
• Estate and Retirement Planning Answer Book, 2012 Ed. U.S.

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CCH's Guidebook to Virginia Taxes is the perfect resource for concise and reliable information for practitioners working with state taxation in Virginia. Designed as a quick reference work, the Guidebook presents succinct discussions of Virginia state and local taxes, describing the general provisions of the respective tax laws and regulations and highlighting significant cases and administrative rulings. Published annually, this publication is useful to tax practitioners, in-state and multistate businesspersons, and those who are obligated to file Virginia returns or who are required to deal with Virginia taxes.

This authoritative Guidebook is the one source those involved with Virginia taxation need for timely and accurate answers in a convenient and accessible desktop format. It presents concise coverage of the taxes of major interest including:

• personal income tax
• corporate income tax
• bank franchise tax
• sales and use taxes
• property taxes
• excise taxes

The Guidebook includes additional practical tips, pointers and examples to practitioners by William L.S. Rowe, a partner of the Richmond office of the law firm, Hunton & Williams. This valuable commentary helps practitioners further apply the complex principles of Virginia tax law to specific practice situations.

For the user's convenience in determining what is new in the Virginia tax law, a special Highlights of Tax Changes section is included to provide at-a-glance awareness of key legislative developments in the law. While this handbook focuses on the law applicable to the filing of income tax returns in 2011 for the 2010 tax year, legislative changes effective after 2010 are also noted with an indication of the effective date to avoid confusion and to assist in future tax planning. Helpful references to both the Virginia and related federal provisions are provided throughout for those who wish to more fully examine explanations and text of the applicable law. Also, detailed Tables of Contents, Law and Regulations Finding Lists, a Topical Index, and an organized presentation of the content combine to make pinpointing critical information quick and easy. Detailed references to specific paragraphs in the comprehensive CCH Virginia Tax Reports service are also provided throughout the Guidebook to assist users in further, more comprehensive tax research and tax planning.

• State Tax Handbook 2011
• Guidebook to Il

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Provides expanded coverage of financial and estate planning strategies for implementing individualized solutions for the special problems associated with retaining accumulated wealth for retirement and estate planning purposes. With its comprehensive two-part approach to the complex issues that link retirement planning and estate planning, this book includes coverage of such topics as the final minimum distribution rules for individual retirement accounts and qualified plan distributions, the use of insurance as a qualified plan asset, and changes in the law to reflect the latest legislation.

Replete with scores of examples that illustrate and analyze estate planning strategies and their effects, it brings insight and expertise to the realm of estate and retirement planning by focusing on the tax-free transfer of wealth and by providing an insider's view of the various retirement benefits available to the corporate executive under both qualified and non-qualified retirement plans.

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Available: October 2011

CCH's Guidebooks to State Taxes are the classic handbooks on specific State taxation. Widely used by practitioners and all those involved in State taxes, these time-saving guides are accepted as the premier source for quick reference to all taxes levied by the state, including personal and corporate income, inheritance and gift, sales and use, and property taxes (when applicable). The 2012 Guidebooks are reflecting significant new legislation, regulations and court decisions through press time.

• State Tax Handbook (2012)
• Guidebook to Illinois Taxes (2012)
• Guidebook to California Taxes (2012)
• Guidebook to Connecticut Taxes (2012)
• Guidebook to Florida Taxes (2012)
• Guidebook to Maryland Taxes (2012)
• Guidebook to Massachusetts Taxes (2012)
• Guidebook to Michigan Taxes (2012)
• Guidebook to New Jersey Taxes (2012)
• Guidebook to New York Taxes (2012)
• Guidebook to North Carolina Taxes (2012)
• Guidebook to Ohio Taxes (2012)
• Guidebook to Pennsylvania Taxes (2012)
• Guidebook to Texas Taxes (2012)  

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Fair Value Measurements Answer Book (formerly the FAS 157 Answer Book) is the most comprehensive and authoritative resource for getting quick and accurate information about the adoption, planning, and implementation of ASC Topic 820's fair value measurement standards.

Includes all the ASC Topic 820 support materials you need to remain in compliance with all requirements, including common Q&A's, helpful practice aids, official FASB documents, and sample SEC filings.

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