Overview
Organizations and individuals face ever-greater government oversight and regulatory power to impose serious sanctions, which can lead to follow-on litigation and reputational damage. We help businesses address these risks with deep knowledge from across our financial services, competition, tax, privacy, and environmental practices. Our work focuses on defending clients in high-stakes regulatory and enforcement matters across anti-corruption and trade, competition, environmental, financial services, investigations, privacy, and tax.
We have deep experience in identifying, assessing, and mitigating exposure to complex regulatory breaches and other white collar issues. We advise clients facing regulatory scrutiny, investigations by enforcement authorities, and prosecutions, and develop defence strategies that address both immediate exposure and downstream litigation risk.
Our integrated litigation, regulatory, and subject-matter expert teams work together to manage complex, multi-jurisdictional proceedings and parallel civil and regulatory exposure.
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Areas of Service
- Financial servicesWe provide leadership to financial services businesses by managing and mitigating litigation and regulatory exposure. We offer proactive strategies, investigation counsel, and defence representation to achieve results that minimize and eliminate adverse outcomes associated with regulatory breaches.Learn more
- Environmental, Health, and SafetyWe have been assisting clients for decades to manage the sensitive landscape of federal and provincial environmental, health, and safety regulatory investigations and to defend complex, high-profile prosecutions. We draw on that experience not only to minimize liability exposure, but to prioritize preservation of our clients’ reputation in the community and their working relationships with regulators.Learn more
- Anti-corruption and TradeWe take a proactive approach to managing the financial and reputational risks of failing to implement effective anti-corruption policies, helping clients implement programs that limit risk before an incident occurs, as well as supporting them on any investigations, business-critical trials or regulatory proceedings that may follow an alleged breach.
- CompetitionWith insights grounded in our extensive experience of Competition Act matters, we regularly advise clients on complex regulatory investigations and disputes, including cartel investigations, abuse of dominance investigations, and investigations arising from bid-rigging or price-fixing allegations.Learn more
- TaxWe are leaders in tax controversy and litigation before all levels of tax authorities. We counsel clients from the outset of an investigation through to proceedings before regulatory bodies, and the courts when required. We approach client matters with the appropriate level of discretion, and with a view of limiting potential exposure.Learn more
- Privacy and CybersecurityWe advise leading businesses on how to respond to data security incidents and are regularly involved in regulatory investigations and litigation that may follow. We provide support throughout regulatory investigations and frequently defend clients in multi-jurisdictional and multi-party privacy litigations, including class actions.Learn more
- Corporate InvestigationsWe take a fair, thorough, and discreet approach to internal investigations into employee complaints, whistleblower reports, and other allegations of misconduct or breaches of law, helping clients understand the facts, make informed decisions, and manage related legal, reputational, and employee relations risk.Learn more
Recent Recognition
- Highly Recommended for Dispute Resolution by Benchmark
- Band 1 in Litigation: General Commercial (Ontario) (Chambers Canada)