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The government is planning to make significant changes to the UK’s pensions notifiable events regime. The changes are designed to ensure the Pensions Regulator is given advanced notice of material corporate transactions and financing arrangements which may impact a defined benefit (DB) pension scheme.

A recent decision of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench in Tallgrass10 clarifies the threshold that a company must meet when it seeks relief pursuant to the CCAA11, particularly when such an application is met with a competing applicati