Crisis response and planning, reputation management, agile leadership, transparent and timely communications, working with stakeholders, strengthening partnerships, planning for recovery. Adapting and growing in the post-pandemic world, leveraging new partnerships, engaging with communities and stakeholders, workplace health and safety standards, managing and building supply chains.
Managing capital, accessing and restructuring credit facilities, securities issues, tax relief measures, government support.
Employee health, mandatory closure orders by governments, temporarily ceasing operations, layoffs, operating as (or becoming) an “essential” workplace, managing issues of pay, labour contracts, preserving your workforce, pension plan administration, and planning ahead to restarting your business.
Cybersecurity, preventing fraud during the pandemic, intellectual property protection deadlines, managing a stay-at-home workforce, privacy considerations.
Force majeure, managing contract obligations, negotiating contracts during the pandemic, insurance coverage, risk management. Suspension of limitation periods and litigation time limits, limited court operations, pandemic-related litigation, class actions.
How emergency measures affect your operations, regulatory compliance, environmental compliance.
Directors’ duties, annual shareholder meetings, directors & officers liability, M&A, shareholder activism, financial reporting relief.
Based upon our knowledge and experience in crisis and risk management in Canada, we have the ability to guide our clients through developing mitigation plans, responding to events, protecting reputations and managing high-value litigation.
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