Due Diligence Deskbook

This publication is essential for: solicitors acting for a purchaser or lender in a business acquisition.

Current to: July 1, 2014

You're a solicitor acting for a purchaser in a business acquisition. What searches should you conduct as part of your due diligence review? Winner of the ACLEA Award for Professional Excellence in Publications, the Due Diligence Deskbook provides practical commentary on each type of search, precedent letters, and comprehensive information sheets that list addresses, fax and phone numbers, and email and website addresses in over 15 areas, including:

• Bank of Canada searches
• bankruptcy searches
• corporate searches
• employment and labour searches
• environmental searches
• land title searches
• litigation searches
• municipal searches
• natural resources searches
• personal property registry searches
• provincial taxation searches
• provincial work orders searches
• CRA searches
• securities searches
• specialty searches

The book is updated each fall. Subscriptions include online access with search capability and links to the full text of case law and legislation, and precedent letters on CD-ROM.

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Highlights of the 2014 update

All content reviewed and updated for reliable contact, search fee, and map information. Examples of some of the content revisions include:

• Chapter 1 (General Advice): Comments on the new Canadian Anti-spam legislation
• Chapter 3 (Bankruptcy): Comments on searches under the CCAA under the Records List
• Chapter 4 (Corporate Registry): Comments on enhancements to self-searches for BC OnLine account holders; provides example search results for a BC Community Contribution Company and a Society (Community Club)
• Chapter 8 (Out-of-Province Corporate Searches): Information Sheets reflect revised search fees
• Chapter 9 (Workers Compensation): Comments on the limits to searches regarding prevention records
• Chapter 14 (Fisheries and Oceans): Added content regarding the Riparian Area Regulation and updated contact information for Fisheries and Oceans Canada
• Chapter 15 (Transportation of Dangerous Goods): Revised content regarding shipment by rail and air, plus limits to the search
• Chapter 16 (Land Title): Revised content regarding the search and fees under the LTSA
• Chapter 23 (Forestry): Comments on searches under the CCAA under the Records List
• Chapter 24 (Mining Titles): Information Sheets reflect revised district office and contact information
• Chapter 33 (Securities): Revised description on how to conduct the search
• Chapter 34 (Aircraft): Added content regarding Certificates of Registration and the International Registry of Mobile Equipment Search

CLEBC Legal Editor
Morag MacLean
mmaclean@cle.bc.ca

CONTENTS
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General Advice
1. General Advice

Bank of Canada
2. Bank of Canada

Bankruptcy
3. Bankruptcy

Corporate Searches
4. Corporate Registry
5. Corporate Records
6. Federal Corporate Searches
7. Federal Corporate Name Searches
8. Out-of-Province Corporate Searches

Employment and Labour
9. Workers' Compensation
10. Employment Standards
11. Labour Relations
12. Human Rights

Environmental
13. Environmental Management
14. Fisheries and Oceans
15. Transportation of Dangerous Goods

Land Title
16. Land Title Office
17. Land Governed Under the Indian Act

Litigation
18. Court Registries
19. Bailiffs

Municipal
20. Zoning and Land Use
21. Municipal Property Taxation
22. Health Issues

Natural Resources
23. Forestry
24. Mining Titles
25. Mining Taxes

Personal Property Registry
26. Personal Property Registry

Provincial Taxation
27. Provincial Sales Tax
28. Corporation Capital Tax
29. Motor Fuel Tax
29A.Carbon Tax
30. Insurance Premium Tax

Provincial Work Orders
31. Provincial Work Orders

Canada Revenue Agency
32. Canada Revenue Agency

Securities
33. Securities

Additional Searches
33A.Corporate Governance
34. Aircraft
35. Broadcasting
36. Motor Vehicles
37. Railway Mortgages and Rolling Stock Instruments
38. Vessels
39. Water Lots
40. Intellectual Property
41. Domain Names

Tables
Case Table
Statute Table
Index

Features
Written by leading practitioners and reviewed by an expert editorial board, the Deskbook features:

• complete set of precedent letters and information sheets
• registry procedures
• table of statutes
• Searches at a Glance section
• comprehensive index
• convenient looseleaf format with tab indexing
• online access to electronic version with hyperlinks to primary law

Editorial Board
Barry D. Galbraith — Kambas Galbraith, Vancouver
Don C. Sihota — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver

Authors
Brian E. Abraham, QC — Dentons Canada LLP, Vancouver
David A. Allard — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Tricia Auton — WorkSafeBC, Richmond
Desmond M. Balakrishnan — McMillan LLP, Vancouver
James Bryce — Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, Vancouver
Kenneth N. Burnett — Miller Thomson LLP, Vancouver
Nicole M. Byres — Miller Thomson LLP, Vancouver
Maxwell Carroll — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Alexander Coombes — Dentons Canada LLP, Vancouver
Karen Dunham — BC Ministry of Finance, Victoria
Rachel Fisher — WorkSafeBC, Richmond
Ian E. Graf — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Bruce M. Green — Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP, Vancouver
Harley J.S. Harris — Owen Bird Law Corporation, Vancouver
Catherine Hofmann — Bernard LLP, Vancouver
Tamara L. Howarth — Irwin, White & Jennings, Vancouver
David K. Jones — Bernard LLP, Vancouver
Kacey Krenn — Harris & Company LLP, Vancouver
Paul D. Lailey — Davis LLP, Vancouver
Peter C. Lee — Davis LLP, Vancouver
Don D. Mainland — McMillan LLP, Vancouver
Graham S. Matthews — McMillan LLP, Vancouver
Scott McCann — Harris & Company LLP, Vancouver
Eamon Murphy — Woodward & Co. Lawyers LLP, Vancouver
Gary W. Ott — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Milan Pavlic — BC Ministry of Finance, Victoria
Scott L. Perrin — Stikeman Elliott LLP, Vancouver
R. Mark Powers — WorkSafeBC, Richmond
Timothy A.C. Schober — Pearlman Lindholm, Victoria
Pratihba Sharma — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver
Don C. Sihota — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver
Lindsie M. Thomson — Harris & Company LLP, Vancouver
Peter M. Tolensky — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver
Anna M. Tosto — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Ottawa
Dierk Ullrich — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Graham B. Walker — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Christopher P. Weafer — Owen Bird Law Corporation, Vancouver
Robert V. Wickett — MacKenzie Fujisawa LLP, Vancouver