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Torys Business Brief is a long-form podcast that focusses on key issues and actionable knowledge for businesses to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis resilient and well-positioned for the future. Each 30-minute episode features in-depth interviews with Torys lawyers, moderated by Munk Debates convener Rudyard Griffiths. These CPD-accredited episodes are available listen at torys.com/businessbrief.

Open banking was already a hot issue before COVID-19—and now with social distancing and a remote workforce, it has become more important than ever. Torys LLP Partner Joel Ramsey and Senior Associate Ronak Shah discuss open banking and dive into some of the key risks and rewards through the lens of a report from the federal government released earlier this year. Joel and Ronak also set out why there is a sense of underlying urgency as Canada looks to grow an economy that fosters and is focused...

In this episode of Torys in 10, private equity partners Mike Akkawi and Guy Berman discuss some of the findings from PE Pulse, Torys’ private equity sentiment survey, the first survey of its kind in the Canadian market. In the podcast, the pair focus on two main takeaways from the survey, which took the opinions and market sentiments of over 100 private equity and pension fund players in Canada. The first takeaway is the large deal sizes the PE market saw in 2019 and the reported expecta...

If you’re a founder of a company ready for the first round of financing, how can you make your company attractive to the right investor? Partner in Torys LLP’s Emerging Companies and Venture Capital practice Kristine Di Bacco and Senior Associate Marko Trivun sit down and discuss two of the things investors are most interested in when assessing whether to deploy capital in a startup: intellectual property and team. In this episode you’ll hear the pair unpack these two topics as Marko dra...

In this episode, Torys LLP litigation lawyers Andrew Bernstein and Yael Bienenstock dig into the trending issue of cooperative federalism. With the Supreme Court preparing to hear two politically charged cases set to test the limits of cooperative federalism this winter - the references from Saskatchewan and Ontario testing the constitutionality of the federal carbon tax legislation – Andrew and Yael talk through how and why cooperative federalism is being argued in this context, how the idea...

Torys LLP Privacy Counsel Molly Reynolds and Associate Ronak Shah sit down to discuss the Digital Charter initiative which outlines proposals to modernize Canada’s privacy laws, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. The pair talk about the Charter's principles that will guide future policy making, how much substance there is behind them and what businesses can expect over the next few years.Music: Stratosphere - www.adamvitovsky.com.