A recent Ontario decision of Fairstone Financial Holdings Inc. v. Duo Bank of Canada (“Fairstone”) became the first Canadian case to consider material adverse change (“MAC”) or material adverse effect (“MAE”) clauses in the context of COVID-19. In Fairstone, Duo Bank of Canada sought to invoke the MAC/MAE clause to exit the transaction but the
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