American pressures | World Trade Organization | Free Trade | Brexit | Intellectual Property | Tax evasion | Investments | Privacy | International Contracts The beginning of the year is an opportunity to take stock of the foreseeable developments in international trade law for 2019 which are likely to affect companies active internationally. According to CMKZ, 2019 will be dominated by tensions…

Après une bonne décennie (2003-2013) de forte croissance économique continue et quasi générale, l’Amérique Latine continue de présenter un intérêt pour la communauté d’affaires canadienne, même si elle trouve à l’heure actuelle confrontée à une phase de décélération, voire-même de récession économique chez certains de ses acteurs les plus importants….

On January 1, 2016, Québec’s new Code of Civil Procedure (NCCP) entered into force.  This important reform, the first of its kind since 2002, is intended to make justice more accessible, particularly by favouring private dispute prevention and resolution (DPR) processes such as negotiation, mediation and arbitration. The central role…

On December 2nd, 2015, Dr. Hynek Zikovsky, partner at CMKZ and Honorary consul of the Czech Republic for Québec participated in a conference held in Prague covering the theme “How to do business in Canada” organized by CMKZ, Deloitte – Czech Republic, the Canadian Embassy, the Ministry of the Industry…

At the request of the Executive Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, CMKZ prepared a comparative study on the real and transactional costs involved in the process of access to justice across jurisdictions. More specifically, the study identifies attorney fees as well as other costs and expenses that a…