This article explores how Michael Trebilcock's multidimensional and pragmatic approach to the governance issues arising from limited liability in corporate law and the problems of assigning the task of protecting corporate employees to private contracting have widespread application in many...

Defined-benefit pension plans do not offer complete security; there are policy alternatives that would clarify this and are more likely to improve pension security than would the much-discussed options of reforming insolvency law or the constitutionally complex process of negotiating the...

The Ontario Court of Appeal's decision in the Indalex Limited case, decided in April 2011, generated much controversy among members of the Canadian insolvency bar. The appeal concerned the distribution of proceeds following the sale of Indalex's assets as part of a proceeding under the...

This article explores the extent to which the potential and actual conflicts of interest that pervade pension fund administration and investment have influenced the corporate governance activities of these funds. The exploration of these issues is situated in the context of the events...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Corporate Investment by Employee Pension Funds: A Deal with the Devil? -- 2 Pension Fund Assets and Plan Members: A Question of Ownership? -- 3 The Duties of Pension Fund Managers towards Plan Members with Respect to the Governance of...

This paper studies the impact of adoption of provisions of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Model Law on cross-border insolvency. This paper offers an analysis of the U.S. jurisprudence in regard to Chapter 15 of the United States Bankruptcy Code which has been...

This article focuses on shareholders and whether the current regime affords them adequate protection and participation rights. Recent changes to corporate and securities laws have facilitated the exercise of shareholder voice. These changes are important to capital markets in that they are aimed...