Important Takeaways from the Cormark Securities Decision
Event Overview
Hear directly from those involved in the very recent, meaningful Ontario Capital Markets Tribunal decision in Re Cormark Securities. Join Graham Splawski and Laura Levine of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, who represented Cormark in this matter, with important take-aways for market participants on what does and does not constitute an illegal distribution involving short sales, when an issuer is a “client” of a registered firm and the public interest jurisdiction.
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Graham Splawski
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
Laura Levine
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
Graham Splawski
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
Graham specializes in resolving complex commercial disputes for public and private companies, as well as individuals.
Graham’s areas of focus include:
- securities, employment and competition/antitrust class actions
- mergers and acquisitions litigation
- securities regulation, including internal investigations
- shareholder disputes, including oppression claims and proxy fights
- banking litigation, including bills of exchange and debtor/creditor litigation
- general commercial litigation, including contractual and enforcement matters, and fraud
Graham has acted as counsel and assisted with matters before arbitrators, administrative tribunals and self-regulatory organizations, all levels of courts in Ontario and other provinces, the Federal Court of Canada and at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Laura Levine
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG)
Laura is a partner and national leader of the firm’s Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) initiative. She practices corporate and securities law with a focus on public companies and capital markets. She advises clients on a wide range of complex securities law matters, including corporate finance, corporate governance, continuous disclosure, public mergers and acquisition, and securities regulatory compliance. Laura’s client service strategy revolves around her deep understanding of the law and ability to ask the right questions to understand clients’ goals and provide tailored and practical solutions.
In addition to her work on transactional matters, Laura plays a lead role in the development and management of innovative legal content and current awareness materials, contributes to practice group and firm wide education initiatives, and monitors legal, regulatory and market developments with the goal of ensuring that BLG lawyers and clients benefit from the firm’s collective and cutting-edge legal expertise.
Laura is the co-chair of BLG’s Modern Slavery Taskforce, focused on unifying the firm on the newly enacted Fighting Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act.
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