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American courts have brought the practice of stock option backdating to the forefront. Described by the Wall Street Journal as "the perfect payday", some company executives and directors are now beginning to suffer the consequences of a practice that saw several of them draw undue profits after issuing stock options on dates hand-selected to coincide with favourable exercise prices.

Lawyer-client administrative information, including payments into and out of trust accounts, is presumptively and rebuttably privileged.

On November 5, 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled for the first time on the scope of the protection against cruel and unusual treatment or punishment guaranteed under section 12

In the 1983 classic Scarface, Tony Montana was recorded laundering millions of dollars by a video camera disguised as a clock.

Individuals and corporations considering pleading guilty and paying a small fine instead of appealing a charge should be aware of the hidden costs of their decision.

An overview of the potential liability of Canadian companies for the acts of third party agents under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials.

On July 1, 2011, the U.K.’s new Bribery Act1 came into force with enough extra-jurisdictional reach to potentially apply to Canadian companies.

Au final, c’est une peine de un million de dollars qui est infligée par la Cour, soit 10 % de la peine maximale qui était en vigueur à l’époque des faits en litige.

Canada's enforcement of its Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act is still in its infancy.

2025 was not a particularly robust year for major white collar prosecutions in Canada. However, that does not mean the risk environment was stagnant.

We have to live without sympathy, don't we? We can't do that forever. One can't stay out of doors all the time. One needs to come in from the cold.

The enforcement of sanctions against antitrust cartels remained at the forefront of both Canada’s Competition Bureau and global antitrust regulators in 2011.

Canada’s foreign anti-bribery law, the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA), makes it a serious criminal offence for Canadians and Canadian companies to bribe foreign government officials.

Developed by our Corporate Crime, Compliance and Investigations group, Focus on Investigations covers some of the key issues that investigators should take care to consider when undertaking internal investigations.

As we start the New Year, Canadian companies are well-advised to take stock of recent developments in anti-corruption law and assess where they stand in terms of implementing appropriate internal controls and due diligence policies to ensure compliance with Canada’s Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA)1 and other potentially applicable anti-bribery regimes, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the U.K. Bribery Act.

The United States was the first country to enact legislation against bribery of foreign officials with the implementation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in 1977 ("FCPA").

In Canada, corporate criminal liability is increasingly becoming an area of focus for regulators, law enforcement officers, and the public.

Compared to the relevant legislation in the U.S. and U.K. Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act is an exceedingly quick read.