Due Diligence Deskbook

Get on target every time you investigate a company in a business acquisition
You're a solicitor acting for a purchaser in a business acquisition. What searches should you conduct as part of your due diligence review? Winner of the ACLEA Award for Professional Excellence in Publications, the Due Diligence Deskbook provides practical commentary on each type of search, precedent letters, and comprehensive information sheets that list addresses, fax and phone numbers, and email and website addresses in over 15 areas, including:

• Bank of Canada searches
• bankruptcy searches
• corporate searches
• employment and labour searches
• environmental searches
• land title searches
• litigation searches
• municipal searches
• natural resources searches
• personal property registry searches
• provincial taxation searches
• provincial work orders searches
• CRA searches
• securities searches
• specialty searches

Subscriptions include online access with search capability and links to the full text of case law and legislation, precedent letters on CD-ROM, and updates each fall.

Highlights of the 2010 update

• provincial tax issues: HST; repeal of corporation capital tax; taxation of ethanol, ethanol blends, bio­diesel, and biodiesel blends; exemption of propane from motor fuel tax and carbon tax security scheme; additional penalties for vendors selling fuel without being appointed as collectors
• securities issues: searching for defaulting reporting issuers; Disciplined Persons, Investment Caution, and Exempt Distribution databases; searching for individuals or corporations registered to advise or trade in securities with the British Columbia Securities Commission; insider reporting requirements; Canadian Securities Administrators’ harmonized list of deficiencies; registration requirements and exemptions
• land Code process for self-governing First Nations
• fishing licence as “personal property”: Saulnier v. Royal Bank of Canada (S.C.C.)
• updated contact information and search letters
  

CLEBC Legal Editor
L. Joy Tataryn
jtataryn@cle.bc.ca

CONTENTS
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General Advice
1.   General Advice

Bank of Canada
2.   Bank of Canada

Bankruptcy
3.   Bankruptcy

Corporate Searches
4.   Corporate Registry
5.   Corporate Records
6.   Federal Corporate Searches
7.   Federal Corporate Name Searches
8.   Out-of-Province Corporate Searches

Employment and Labour
9.   Workers' Compensation
10.  Employment Standards
11.  Labour Relations
12.  Human Rights

Environmental
13.  Environmental Management
14.  Fisheries and Oceans
15.  Transportation of Dangerous Goods

Land Title
16.  Land Title Office
17.  Land Governed Under the Indian Act

Litigation
18.  Court Registries
19.  Bailiffs

Municipal
20.  Zoning and Land Use
21.  Municipal Property Taxation
22.  Health Issues

Natural Resources
23.  Forestry
24.  Mining Titles
25.  Mining Taxes

Personal Property Registry
26.  Personal Property Registry

Provincial Taxation
27.  Social Service Tax
28.  Corporation Capital Tax
29.  Motor Fuel Tax
29A.Carbon Tax
30.  Insurance Premium Tax

Provincial Work Orders
31.  Provincial Work Orders

Canada Revenue Agency
32.  Canada Revenue Agency

Securities
33.  Securities
33A.Corporate Governance

Additional Searches
34.  Aircraft
35.  Broadcasting
36.  Motor Vehicles
37.  Railway Mortgages and Rolling Stock Instruments
38.  Vessels
39.  Water Lots
40.  Intellectual Property
41.  Domain Names

Tables
Case Table
Statute Table
Index

Features
Written by leading practitioners and reviewed by an expert editorial board, the Deskbook features:

• new legislation
• complete set of precedent letters and information sheets
• new registry procedures
• table of statutes
• Searches at a Glance section
• comprehensive index
• convenient looseleaf format with tab indexing
• online access to electronic version with hyperlinks to primary law

Editorial Board
Barry D. Galbraith — Kambas Galbraith, Vancouver
Don C. Sihota — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver

Authors
Brian E. Abraham, QC — Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, Vancouver
David A. Allard — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Desmond M. Balakrishnan — Lang Michener LLP, Vancouver
Murray W. Browne — Woodward & Co. Lawyers LLP, Vancouver
Kenneth N. Burnett — Miller Thomson LLP, Vancouver
Nicole M. Byres — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver
Maxwell Carroll — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Karen Dunham — BC Ministry of Finance, Victoria
Irene T. Gauld — Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, Vancouver
Bruce M. Green — Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP, Vancouver
Karin Grubb — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Harley J.S. Harris — Owen Bird Law Corporation, Vancouver
Tamara L. Howarth — Irwin, White & Jennings, Vancouver
David K. Jones — Bernard & Partners, Vancouver
Paul D. Lailey — Davis LLP, Vancouver
Peter C. Lee — Davis LLP, Vancouver
Don D. Mainland — Lang Michener LLP, Vancouver
Graham S. Matthews — Lang Michener LLP, Vancouver
Andrew P. Mayer — Prince Rupert Port Authority, Vancouver
Scott McCann — Harris & Company LLP, Vancouver
Gary W. Ott — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Scott L. Perrin — Stikeman Elliott LLP, Vancouver
R. Mark Powers — WorkSafeBC, Richmond
Timothy A.C. Schober — Pearlman Lindholm, Victoria
Don C. Sihota — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver
Lawrence W.E. Talbot — Lawrence W. Talbot Law Corporation, Vancouver
Lindsie M. Thomson — Harris & Company LLP, Vancouver
Peter M. Tolensky — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver
Anna M. Tosto — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin, Ottawa
Graham B. Walker — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Christopher P. Weafer — Owen Bird Law Corporation, Vancouver
Robert V. Wickett — MacKenzie Fujisawa LLP, Vancouver
Jennifer Wiegele — Harris & Company LLP, Vancouver
Andrea C. Zappavigna — McAlister Hallam, Vancouver