Order: In the Matter of Nest Acquisitions and Mergers and Caroline Frayssignes
IN THE MATTER OF THE SECURITIES ACT
R.S.O. 1990, c.S.5, AS AMENDED
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IN THE MATTER OF NEST ACQUISITIONS AND MERGERS and
CAROLINE FRAYSSIGNES
ORDER
(Subsection 127(8) of the Securities Act)
WHEREAS on April 8, 2009, the Ontario Securities Commission (the “Commission”) issued a temporary cease trade order (the “Temporary Order”) pursuant to sections 127(1) and 127(5) of the Securities Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. S.5, as amended (the “Act”) ordering that all trading in securities by Nest Acquisitions and Mergers (“Nest”) and Caroline Frayssignes (“Frayssignes”) shall cease;
AND WHEREAS on April 8, 2009, the Commission ordered that the Temporary Order shall expire on the 15th day after its making unless extended by order of the Commission;
AND WHEREAS on April 15, 2009, the Commission issued a Notice of Hearing to consider, among other things, the extension of the Temporary Order, to be held on April 22, 2009 at 2:00 p.m;
AND WHEREAS Staff served Nest and Frayssignes with the Notice of Hearing on April 16, 2009 by sending a copy by email to counsel for Nest and Frayssignes;
AND WHEREAS the Commission held a hearing on April 22, 2009 and counsel for Staff and an agent for counsel for the respondents attended before the Commission;
AND WHEREAS counsel for Staff provided the Commission with a signed consent to an order extending the Temporary Order until May 21, 2009;
AND WHEREAS on April 22, 2009, a panel of the Commission ordered, pursuant to subsection 127(8) of the Act, that the Temporary Order be extended as against the respondents to May 22, 2009 and that the hearing be adjourned to May 21, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.;
AND WHEREAS the Commission held a hearing on May 21, 2009, in writing, and counsel for Staff and counsel for the respondents consented to an order extending the Temporary Order until June 17, 2009 and adjourning the hearing until June 16, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.;
AND WHEREAS the Commission is of the opinion that it is in the public interest to make this Order;
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that pursuant to subsection 127(8) of the Act that the Temporary Order is extended until June 17, 2009.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the hearing is adjourned to June 16, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
DATED at Toronto this 21st day of May 2009.
Suresh Thakrar
Paulette L. Kennedy