First supplement to Sale of Shares and Businesses, a comprehensive guide to the acquisition of businesses by either a purchase of shares or a purchase of assets. Supplement brings the content (including the precedents) up to date with the new Company Act as implemented, cites key new cases, completely updates the financial services chapter and includes new precedents. Includes a CD-rom of the updated precedents.

This volume is a compilation of papers reflecting many of the issues related to telecommunications that are being debated today and are likely to continue to be addressed in the next few years. The papers examine the ways in which economic and technological forces are changing the regulation of telecommunications and the characteristics of the industry itself. After an introduction on issues such as the information highway, industry consolidation, market integration, and constraints on new policies, the papers cover such topics as the changes in Canadian telecommunications and their economics, the role of telecommunications in productivity and competition, the business network concept as an alternative governance structure, competition policy, convergence of technologies, separation of infrastructure from services, European telecommunications policy, and the historical context in which Canada has handled earlier transformations of a technological nature.