Guides
Data room guides
Long, practical guides for Canadian deal teams, checked against Canadian statutes, regulators and exchange rules.
Selling a business in Canada: preparing for buyer due diligence
A seller's guide to a Canadian private company sale: the process from CIM to closing, share or asset sale, the lifetime capital gains exemption, family transfers, the documents buyers request and what the data room costs.
Oct 16, 2026
Capital markets Listing on the TSX Venture Exchange or TSX: the due diligence data room How a Canadian listing is diligenced, from a capital pool company to a long-form TSX prospectus, and how to build the data room that underwriters, sponsors, auditors and the exchange will all read.
Oct 16, 2026
Deals Due diligence checklist for M&A in Canada A categorized checklist for buying or selling a Canadian business: minute books and ISC registers, CRA and GST/HST, employment standards and WSIB, environmental and IP, and the 2026 Competition Act and Investment Canada Act thresholds.
Oct 16, 2026
Privacy law PIPEDA section 7.2: sharing personal information in a deal data room Section 7.2 of PIPEDA lets a seller show personal information to a buyer without consent, but only under conditions. Here is what they are, how the provincial laws differ, and how to set up a data room that respects them.
Oct 15, 2026
Buying a data room Virtual data rooms in Canada: a buyer's guide with CAD prices What a virtual data room does for a Canadian deal team, how it differs from SharePoint or Google Drive, what Canadian privacy law asks of it, and what it really costs in Canadian dollars once FX and sales tax are added.
Oct 15, 2026