by Alixe Cormick | Feb 14, 2022
– *updated February 14, 2022 – The British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan securities regulators are all very proactive in their approach to overseeing the exempt private placement securities market involving their home jurisdictions. One way...
by Alixe Cormick | Feb 2, 2022
– *updated February 2, 2022 – Canadian provincial securities laws apply anytime a company issuing securities is located in Canada or the individual receiving or selling securities is located in Canada. If you purchased securities of a company in a private...
by Alixe Cormick | Oct 10, 2019
– *updated October 10, 2019 – This article discusses how US Blue Sky resale laws work and the importance of Blue Sky manual exemption when re-selling private placement securities in the US. State securities laws are often called “Blue Sky”...
by Alixe Cormick | Sep 27, 2019
Listings and capital raises on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) have been choppy in 2019. As of July 31, 2019, there has been a total of 86 going public/new listing transactions on the TSXV (July 2018 – 120). [1] From 2009 to 2013 the number of listings on...
by Alixe Cormick | Sep 27, 2019
– *updated September 27, 2019 – At one time there was very little difference between a Canadian Over-the-Counter (“OTC “) shell company and a United States (“US”) OTC shell company. Potential shell purchasers were indifferent as...
by Alixe Cormick | Mar 22, 2016
New equity crowdfunding portals are starting to emerge across Canada. Five new portals became active since my last presentation on this topic in February this year, and one portal closed due to the unexpected death of its founder. Three of the new crowdfunding portals...
by Alixe Cormick | Oct 12, 2015
[As published on October 7, 2015 on CrowdfundInsider.com] By Bret Conkin and Alixe Cormick Real estate investment is a consistently hot news topic. Open any newspaper or news website in Canada and coverage of the real estate market is easy to find, particularly in...
by Alixe Cormick | Oct 8, 2015
[As published on September 2, 2015 on CrowdfundInsider.com] By Bret Conkin and Alixe Cormick Causes and Lessons to be learned from more Developed Markets In this three-part series, we examine whether “conservative” Canadian business culture is having a negative effect...