About

Chris von Boetticher has spent the majority of his career working as an in-house lawyer at his current employer CI Investments, where he was promoted to general counsel in 2008. Previous positions include a role at BPI financial and two roles in private practice. A highly intelligent lawyer with strong leadership qualities, von Boetticher has played a key role in growing the legal department at CI Investments, in-sourcing legal work and significantly reducing the legal department’s total spend. In addition, von Boetticher implemented a document management system and has increased the number of female lawyers working in the department. The highlight of von Boetticher’s career has been assisting in the acquisition and integration of the numerous businesses CI Investments has purchased during his tenure. In one case, the company acquired three separate businesses over a period of just three months. He says: ‘These acquisitions helped propel the company from one of many medium-sized fund management companies in Canada to where we are currently as the largest independent fund company in the country’. The biggest factor affecting CI and the Canadian asset management industry has been the volume and pace of regulatory changes. Regulators across Canada and globally, especially since 2008, have been augmenting existing regulations and introducing new regulations. This has required von Boetticher’s department to assign resources to focus on keeping abreast of regulatory changes, communicating those changes to the business and assisting with the implementation of changes resulting from new regulations.