Description: Brian Koscak is a partner at Cassels Brock LLP. Brian Koscak is also active in the equity crowdfunding space. Brian Koscak writes his personal blogs here.
BRIAN KOSCAK
Canadian Corporate & Securities Lawyer
By Brian Koscak and Michael Brown – Effective as of October 31, 2014, securities legislation in each of Ontario, Québec and Manitoba came into force that requires “local counterparties” which engage in derivative transactions to report certain derivatives transaction data to a designated trade repository. OSC Rule 91-507 Trade Repositories and Derivatives Data Reporting and the corresponding rules in Québec and Manitoba (collectively, the TR Rules ) have broad application and any issuer or entity that engag