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An M&A Series by Cassels Brock, partner Arthur Hamilton discusses compliance with Canadian legislation related to the corruption of foreign officials.

Under the "Freezing Assets of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act", FINTRAC issued an advisory note.

The debtor engaged in extensive shenanigans and transfers. He claimed a trust in favour of a corporation when the corporation was not incorporated until many years after the date the trust allegedly arose.

This week, Louis Morisset, the President and CEO of Quebec's Autorité des marchés financiers announced that they "have made suppressing illegal insider trading and market manipulation a top priority".

The Alberta Court of Appeal referred an insider trading sanctions of $1.75m in administrative penalties back to the Alberta Securities Commission ("ASC") because it saw no clear basis for the penalty that did not apparently consider the individual's financial difficulties.

The need for an internal investigation often arises in the midst of a crisis where both internal and external pressures create the risk of internal chaos.

Canadian Lawyer Magazine interviewed us last week on our recent post "OSC again uses public interest power to impose penalty where insider trading law technically does not apply".

Last Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada decided in R. v. Lloyd that a mandatory minimum sentence of one year's imprisonment for a second drug trafficking offence is unconstitutional.

Sabrina A. Bandali comments in Global Investigations Review on how a recent acquittal of a Canadian national accused of bribing a foreign public official...

Items addressed in the letter include due process and transparency, unified integrity measures, debarment, government leniency programs, and equitable application of rule of law, among other recommendations.

The Globe and Mail recently reported that the RCMP executed a search warrant at the home of a former senior executive of SNC, Sami Bebawi.

In applying to TD for a line of credit, Mr. and Mrs. Jolly represented that they held a beneficial interest in their house.

Guy Giorno is a partner with Fasken Martineau who practises public law with an emphasis on accountability and ethics laws.

This week, Louis Morisset, the President and CEO of Quebec's Autorité des marchés financiers (the AMF) announced that they "have made suppressing illegal insider trading and market manipulation a top priority".

Chanel S de R.L., et al. v Lam Chan Kee Company Ltd., et al. 2015 FC 1091, is a case involving counterfeit CHANEL® goods.

​The Manitoba Court of Appeal recently dismissed an appeal of a 15 month jail term in a case involving an individual who had obtained stolen credit card data in Asia and used it to purchase goods at retailers in Canada.

On Friday, the SCC completely overhauled the framework for analyzing pre-trial delay under s. 11(b) of the Charter in its decision in R. v. Jordan, finding that the existing test is unduly complex and unpredictable.