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Public Company Compliance

Continuously evolving regulatory disclosure requirements and increasing demands for transparency by shareholders and the public are significant challenges for public companies.

Public companies need competent legal advisors that possess a thorough understanding of the corporate and regulatory disclosure requirements to help them meet their compliance obligations. Maxis Law has successfully advised numerous public companies on a variety of corporate and regulatory disclosure matters.

Our legal team has an intimate understanding of public company compliance issues, including requirements pursuant to securities laws, corporate laws, stock exchange regulations, disclosure matters, financial reporting, and corporate governance matters. We work diligently with our clients to proactively identify and remedy potential corporate compliance issues.

We have assisted our clients in various corporate compliance matters. These include continuous disclosure obligations, press releases and material change reports, financial statements and management discussion and analysis, annual information forms, preparation of proxy materials and information circulars. Our lawyers have extensive experience reviewing technical disclosure regarding mineral projects, including ensuring that technical reports prepared by geologists comply with applicable disclosure requirements, as well as guiding clients through technical and disclosure reviews by regulators.

Our wealth of experience and proactive service approach to compliance matters ensures that our clients are well aware of, and prepared for, all of their upcoming public company compliance obligations.

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