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, employment, privacy and environmental practices.
We work closely with clients through investigations to identify, assess and mitigate exposure to alleged or potential breach of statutes and regulations. Our experience extends to investigatory matters, including large-scale forensic investigations and independent inquiries. We also interact with regulators on our clients’ behalf or guide them closely through those interactions. We have deep experience defending regulatory investigations and litigation that may follow a breach.
Our work extends across a broad number of areas, including anti-corruption and trade, competition, employment, environmental, financial services, investigations, privacy and tax.
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Areas of Service
- Crisis management & investigationsWe help clients through all types of crises, providing practical advice and assistance with crisis communications, with a view to mitigating risk. Across all areas of potential breach, we work closely with our subject matter practitioners, as well as forensic experts and in-house counsel, to assess the evidence, conduct investigations, and respond to regulatory reviews.Learn more
- 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 support 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
- Employment and Occupational Health and SafetyOur team of leading employment lawyers has decades of experience addressing complex employment and occupational, health and safety matters, with a long track record of successfully navigating highly sensitive investigations and disputes.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 & 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
Recent Recognition
- Highly Recommended for Dispute Resolution by Benchmark
- Band 1 in Litigation: General Commercial (Ontario) (Chambers Canada)