Securities Regulation in Canada, Fourth Edition provides securities lawyers and lawyers who do not regularly practice in this area with a thorough introduction to securities regulation. It is also useful to those who work in the securities business and wish to expand their knowledge of Canadian securities regulation and Canadian securities laws, and especially to business students who often have very little knowledge of the legal framework in which financing takes place. The book provides an in-depth analysis of various aspects related to securities regulations such as, scope of regulations, security values and securities market efficiency, and the constitutional division of powers. Other topics discussed in this current edition include:

• An introduction on securities and its scope
• Types of securities
• Security values and securities market efficiency
• A short history of securities regulation in England, the United States and Canada
• Corporate governance requirements in Canadian securities regulation
• Takeover bid and issuer bid regulation
• Securities industry regulation
• Investment funds
• A discussion of the emergence of cyber-currencies and bitcoin
• Issues relating to capital funding of firms and organizations engaged in the cannabis industry
• A discussion of the proposed Capital Markets Regulatory System