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10 TALL Newsl. 1 (1990-1991)

handle is hein.journals/tallquart10 and id is 1 raw text is: Vol. 10, No. I TALL NEWSLETTER o T I R oO SOCIA ON o L A IBRI ANS Corporate Information. - Sorting Through the Sources (Part I) by Jane Freeman Davies, Ward & Beck For the uninitiated, the request to find a 10-K, takeover bid, or rights offering might be considered a little bewildering. Take heart - the information is not so dif- ficult to find. In fact, the securities world is fairly controlled and regu- I lated through provincial legislation IN TH in Canada and federal laws in the United States. Fortunately, because companies are required to disclose Features and file specific details about their Corporate Informa activities, this makes finding the Through the Sourc information much easier. SComputerized Can This article will concentrate on come a n searching for information in two spe- InoeTxRsa cific jurisdictions (possibly the two Columns most requested), Ontario and the Editor's Notes. United States. Of particular interest Executive Update.. are the documents that may be ii obtained from various legislative Book Reviews ........ bodies and commercial organiza- Profiles .................... tions as a result of disclosure require- New Members ....... ments. At the end of the article is a Bibliographic Note list of all the organizations men- Co tioned including addresses and tele- ntinuing Educati phone numbers. Marketplace ........... Securities legislation makes much Committee Update use of the term reporting issuer. it is important to keep in mind that an issuer is generally a corporation but also may include a part- nership, syndication or association whose shares are publicly traded. The rules governing disclo- sure requirements for reporting issuers are derived from several ISSUE sources. They include: 1) The Ontario Securities Act; 2) The policy statements of the Ontario Securities Commis- - Sorting sion (OSC) and the national art I) ................ I policy statements; * 3) Policies of the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE) as well as its rules and by-laws; and 4) The Ontario Business Corpo- 2 rations Act (OBCA) and Cana- 3 dian Business Corporations Act (CBCA) and certain regu- .......................... lations under these acts. .......................... The regulating bodies for these .......I................... 8 sources are the Ontario govern- ment (Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations and the Ontario Securities Commission), the .......................... 10 Toronto Stock Exchange, and the .......................... 10 federal government (Ministry of * Consumer and Corporate Affairs). Continued on page 4 Is tion es (P adian ch ... S ....... on .... S ...... October, 1990

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