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COVID-19: Ontario and Québec governments limit non-essential business operations

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, provincial governments across Canada have declared states of emergency and/or states of public health...

Réponse judicieuse à la crise liée au nouveau coronavirus (COVID-19)

Les organisations doivent cerner et gérer de façon réfléchie les risques entraînés par cette « crise », précipitée par la flambée, en...

Canada drops from Top 10 Least Corrupt Countries in Transparency International Annual Corruption Perceptions Index

On January 23, 2020, Transparency International (TI) released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), reporting that Canada had dropped four...

FCPA developments: Glencore, Ericsson and increasing regulatory enforcement

Regulators in both the U.S. and the UK have recently undertaken significant enforcement action against companies for alleged violations of foreign...

Greater clarity on Prohibited Insider Trading in the United States?

Canadian securities legislation explicitly prohibits trading by insiders who possess material non-public information (MNPI). However, notwithstanding...

Déjà vu all over again: SEC lays fraud charges against former Portus co-founder Boaz Manor

Boaz Manor – the co-founder of the failed investment manager Portus Alternative Asset Management Inc. (“Portus”) – finds...

Turning the Page? SNC Pleads Guilty to Fraud Relating to Libya Work; Former Executive Sentenced for Fraud, Corruption

On December 18, 2019 a division of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. pleaded guilty to fraud  in relation to the company’s activities in Libya, to...

Key developments in capital markets regulatory and white-collar defence

The year was marked by regulatory, legislative and political activity that significantly impacted the white-collar and capital markets regulatory...