This handbook and bonus CD-ROM provides an up-to-date guide to structuring and negotiating profitable corporate alliances, covering both the strategic benefits and potential risks involved. In straightforward language, this practical resource explains the proprietary rights issues involved and then walks the reader through the chronology of a deal, from the definition of objectives to the decision to seek an alliance, identification of potential partners, negotiations and closing.

Corporate Partnering is packed full of the latest forms covering all aspects of strategic alliances and annotated with crisp, clear commentary explaining the real-world issues addressed by each provision and showing how alternative solutions can be used to accomplish different aims. These carefully crafted agreements cover the broad range of areas from supply and distribution, product and technology, research and development to investment and investment-related arrangements.

Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the latest developments, the Fourth Edition includes new sections on spin-out transactions, virtual companies and off-shoring arrangements, plus updated transaction forms, intellectual property summary and partnering transactions checklists.

Table of contents:
Chapter 1 Corporate Partnering/Strategic Alliances
Chapter 2 Preliminary Agreements
Chapter 3 The Alliance Agreements
Chapter 4 Equity Investments by One Partner in the Other
Chapter 5 Partnering with Universities and Non-Profit Research Institutes
Chapter 6 Spin-Out Transactions
Chapter 7 Life Sciences Transactions
Chapter 8 Software, Semi-Conductor and New Media Development and Licensing Arrangements
Chapter 9 Virtual Company/Outsourcing/Off-Shoring Agreements
Chapter 10 Teaming Agreement

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Published: June 2011

What do we understand by confidentiality in arbitration? What are its limitations? Who is bound to observe it? How can we quantify its breach? In addressing these questions, the book engages such issues as the following:

• Reasons for disclosure – e.g., for the establishment of a defence, for the enforcement of rights, in the public interest or in the interests of justice
• Disclosure by consent, express or implied
• Circumstances triggering statutory obligation of disclosure
• Recent trends towards greater transparency in investor-State arbitration
• Court measures in support of arbitral confidentiality such as award of damages for breach of confidentiality
• Categories of persons bound by confidentiality, including third parties such as witnesses and experts

Structured along the main stages of the arbitral process, the analysis covers the duty of confidentiality from the initiation of arbitral proceedings through their unfolding to the issuance of the award and after. The scope of confidentiality is reviewed in the practice of arbitral tribunals and domestic courts, and from the perspective of international arbitration institutions, with detailed attention to various arbitration rules and numerous significant cases.

In its elucidation of the amount of confidentiality that ‘veils’ each phase of the arbitral process, and its ground-breaking identification of ‘patterns of disclosure’, this book is sure to raise awareness about the various facets and problems posed by confidentiality in arbitration. Although its scholarly contribution to the law of international commercial arbitration cannot be gainsaid, corporate counsel worldwide will quickly prize its more practical value.

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Published: November 2012

Canadian Securities Regulatory Requirements Applicable to Non-Resident Broker-Dealers, Advisers and Investment Fund Managers provides foreign securities and investment firms with essential information they need about Canadian securities regulatory licensing requirements.

Written with Canada’s top securities law experts at McCarthy Tétrault LLP, this resource serves as a comprehensive guide to foreign securities and investment firms seeking Canadian clients. In short, anyone who has clients conducting securities business in Canada will require this resource. Foreign investment managers will also require this information to act as an investment fund manager in Canada.

The book covers topics that should be addressed by non-residents before trading securities or providing investment advice to any person or company within Canada.

What's included:

• Dealer registration
• Adviser registration
• Investment fund manager registration
• Prospectus requirements

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This comprehensive volume provides full text of the California personal and corporate income (franchise) tax law and Franchise Tax Board regulations as amended through January 1, 2013.

California Income Tax Laws and Regulations Annotated presents the following divisions of the Revenue and Taxation Code in the order in which they appear in the California Code:


-    Personal Income Tax

-    Administration of Franchise and Income Tax

-    Senior Citizens Property Tax Assistance and Postponement Law

-    Taxpayers' Bill of Rights

-    Corporation Tax

-    Multistate Tax Compact



Each Code section is annotated with significant rulings, court decisions, and decisions of the State Board of Equalization, organized according to pertinent sections of the law.  Detailed indexes precede the Personal Income Tax, Administration of Franchise and Income Tax Laws, and the Corporation Tax provisions.  In addition, Federal-California and California-Federal cross reference tables make research thorough and easy.

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Published: April 2006

To supply the background law students need to succeed in business-related courses - such as accounting, economics, real estate, tax, business organizations, and finance - try the text known for its effectiveness, edition after edition. Business Basics for Law Students, Fourth Edition explains the mechanics, concepts, and legal context of business topics in exceptionally clear and accessible language.

The book demystifies business principles through:

• The combined skills of distinguished authors who draw on their teaching and writing experience to build student confidence
• Straightforward explanations of daunting topics (accounting, financial statements, taxes, mortgages, etc.) tailored to students without a business background
• Generous use of examples to convey ideas and applications
• A helpful list of new terms in the appendix, conveniently keyed to the pages where they are used and explained
• Frequent use of visual aids, such as tax forms, financial quotes as they appear in the newspaper, tables, and graphs
• An accessible design featuring lists of topics keyed to headings at the beginning of each chapter, key terms and concepts bolded for easy identification, and frequent use of lists to clearly enumerate points and examples

Thoroughly updated to respond to recent developments, the fourth edition features:

• New material on recent scandals and reforms in the chapters on accounting, forms of organization, trading, and mutual funds
• The latest information on executive compensation
• Extensive revisions to the chapters on tax and retirement planning, in light of recent and proposed reforms, especially in connection with Social Security
• An expanded chapter on insurance that now includes health insurance, auto insurance, and more
• New material on spinoffs and other divisive reorganization in the chapter on mergers, as well as discussion of taxable and tax-free transactions
• New coverage of securities regulation, antitrust, intellectual property law, and international business transactions integrated throughout the text

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A lawyer’s duty to avoid conflicts of interest is an important aspect of the duty of loyalty that lawyers owe to their clients. For Canadian in-house counsel, the duty to avoid conflicts of interest presents special challenges due to the nature of the relationship of in-house counsel to their employer. This webinar will enable in-house counsel to effectively navigate the conflict rules in the Canadian legal system, and provide participants with the knowledge to successfully implement best practices to avoid conflicts of interest.

This webinar will provide participants with an introduction to key cases including the recent Supreme Court of Canada case of Canadian Railway Co. v McKercher LLP, 2013 SCC 39, and provincial law society rules on conflicts of interest. It will also address when representation might attract a bright line rule, and when a contextual test will be applied; the circumstances in which a lawyer might be disqualified from representation of a client; and why a waiver might be insufficient. It will provide an opportunity to learn about the unique duties of in-house counsel in relation to conflicts of interest. Finally, it will provide discussion on some best practices for creating effective policies and procedures to avoid the creation of circumstances in which a conflict of interest would arise.

Key Learning Objectives:

• Learn about the provincial Law Society rules on conflicts of interest in Canada;
• Learn the key Canadian cases on conflict of interests, the rules that have emerged from the jurisprudence, and the policy concerns of the Canadian courts in relation to a lawyer’s duty to avoid conflicts;
• Understand and reflect on your professional duties to your employer, and to your professional regulator, in circumstances in which a conflict of interest may arise; and
• Learn about best practices and policies to avoid conflicts of interest.

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By popular demand, we are now offering an archived version of the webinar Death and Taxes - When Life's Two Certainties Collide that took place on October 28, 2014.

Many a joke has turned on the axiom about the certainty of death and taxes. However, when the first precipitates the second, the resulting complexities are anything but humorous. The planning opportunities and potential complications in planning for those who have a broad base of asset holdings often leave accountants feeling confused and frustrated. Fret no longer.  

In this insightful but concise two-hour archived webinar, Shaun Doody will provide a practical overview of the tax issues and considerations that can arise upon the death of a taxpayer. This includes an overview of the deeming rules invoked on death, the tax treatment of various assets, and some planning opportunities and strategies available to deal with these issues.

More specifically, topics covered will include: 

• Overview of taxation on death in Canada
• Income in year of death
• Deemed realization of income at death
• Deemed disposition of assets at death
• Tax treatment of jointly held assets
• Tax treatment of special assets
  • Principal residence
  • Small business corporations
  • Farming and fishing properties
  • Cottage and vacation properties
  • Partnership interests
  • Trust interests
  • Personal use property
• Charitable donations
• Special rules and elections
• Insurance 
  • Corporate owned policies
  • Valuation issues
  • Capital dividend account
• Foreign assets
• Post-mortem tax planning
  • Capital losses of the estate
  • Step up strategy
  • Pipeline strategy
• Taxation of estates
  • Testamentary trusts
  • Testamentary spousal trusts
  • 21-year rule
  • Distributions to non-residents
  • 2014 Budget changes to taxation of estates/testamentary trusts 
• Estate planning
  • Objectives
  • Estate freeze
  • Inter vivos trusts
  • Charitable donations
  • Spousal rollovers
  • Income splitting
• US tax issues

 This archived webinar includes:

• 30 days to review the webinar recording
• PDF version of the presentation slides

Our Speaker: 
Shaun Doody, Tax Lawyer, Fogler Rubinoff LLP

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Published: March 2009

It often seems today that no dispute is barred from resolution by arbitration. Even the fundamental question of whether a dispute falls under the exclusive jurisdiction of a judicial body may itself be arbitrable. Arbitrability is thus an elusive concept; yet a systematic study of it, as this book shows, yields innumerable guidelines and insights that are of substantial value to arbitral practice.

Although Arbitrability: International and Comparative Perspectives takes the form of a collection of essays, it is designed as a comprehensive commentary on practical issues that emerge from the idea of arbitrability. Fifteen leading academics and practitioners from Europe and the United States each explore different facets of arbitrability always with a perspective open to international developments and comparative evaluation of standards.

The presentation falls into two parts: in the first the focus is on the general features of arbitrability, its rationale and the laws applicable to it. In the second, arbitrability is specifically examined in the context of administrative, criminal, corporate, IP, financial, commercial, and criminal law.

This book has its origins in an International Conference on Arbitrability held at Athens in September 2005. Seven papers presented there are here reviewed and updated, and nine others are added.

The subject of the book – arbitrability – is one that is much talked about, but seldom if ever given the in-depth treatment presented here. Arbitrators and other practitioners in the field will welcome the way the analysis moves logically from theory to practice regarding every issue, and academics will recognize a definitive treatment of arbitrability as understood and applied in the settlement of disputes today.

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The authority of Antitrust Law is second to none. It has been cited more than 50 times by both the Supreme Court and FTC and more than 1,000 times by the federal courts. Most recently it was cited by the Supreme Court in Pacific Bell v LinkLine Communications.

No other source gives you all the law to avoid antitrust liability as you plan marketing strategies, develop pricing policies, structure mergers and prove - or defend against - antitrust injury, monopolization, conspiracy and other allegations. It includes real-world examples and in-depth examination of thousands of cases.

In 2008, the USDOJ Antitrust Division presented Hovenkamp with the prestigious John Sherman Award. This annual award is given for outstanding contributions to the field of antitrust law, the protection of American consumers and the preservation of economic liberty.

The latest release includes Volumes 3, 3A and 3B of the Third Edition, which have been revised and greatly expanded.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Objectives of the Antitrust Laws
• Chapter 2: Domain of the Antitrust Laws: Jurisdiction, Immunities, and Exclusion from Coverage
• Chapter 3: The System of Remedies: Basic Issues
• Chapter 4: The Economic Basis for Antitrust Policy
• Chapter 5: Market Power and Market Definition
• Chapter 6: Monopolization
• Chapter 7: Monopolization: Particular Exclusionary Practices
• Chapter 8: Power and the Power-Conduct Relationship in Monopolization and Attempt
• Chapter 9: Mergers: Generally and Horizontal
• Chapter 10: Vertical Mergers
• Chapter 11: Conglomerate Mergers
• Chapter 12: Partial Acquisitions and Post-Acquisition Evidence
• Chapter 13: Interlocking Directors
• Chapter 14: Conspiracy, Horizontal and Vertical
• Chapter 15: "Rule of Reason" and "Per Se Rule" - General Issues
• Chapter 16: Vertical Distribution Restraints Limiting Intrabrand Competition
• Chapter 17: Tying Arrangements
• Chapter 18: Exclusive Dealing and Related Practices
• Chapter 19: Horizontal Agreements: An Introduction
• Chapter 20: Horizontal Agreements Limiting Participants' Output
• Chapter 21: Horizontal Agreements Facilitating Development, Production, or Distribution
• Chapter 22: Horizontal Agreements Excluding Rivals
• Chapter 23: The Robinson-Patman Act
• Chapter 24: State Antitrust Law: A Brief Introduction
• Complete Table of Contents
• Chapter Table of Cases
• Index

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