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Alberta Securities Commission decision highlights the importance of context in assessing materiality

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • April 15 2013

A recent decision of the Alberta Securities Commission addresses allegations of insider trading (and in the case of one respondent, tipping) against

Amendments to anti-money laundering regulations

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada
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  • February 14 2013

On February 13, 2013, the Government of Canada published in the Canada Gazette certain amendments to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and

Canada redoubles efforts at combating foreign bribery and corruption: officers and directors of Canadian businesses warned to “play by the rules”

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • February 6 2013

Within days of successfully imposing a fine in the amount of $10.3 million against Griffiths Energy1 pursuant to the Canadian Corruption of Foreign

Vigorous Canadian anti-corruption enforcement continues unabated: Griffiths Energy fined $10.3 million pursuant to the CFPOA

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • January 29 2013

Griffiths Energy International Inc. (GEI) entered a guilty plea on January 22, 2013 to a criminal charge under section 3(1)(b) of Canada's Corruption

Importance of anti-money laundering controls

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • July 16 2012

If businesses needed any evidence of the importance of having adequate anti-money laundering controls in place, perhaps the possibility of a $1 billion fine that could be imposed by U.S. regulatory authorities on a financial institution for having inadequate controls will get their attention

Pack your compliance program with your passport - foreign corruption and competition risks for firms doing business internationally

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • February 27 2012

In June 2011, Niko Resources Ltd., a TSX-listed oil and gas exploration and production company, was convicted on charges laid under Canada’s Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA) and fined $9.5 million

Anti-money laundering legislation - Canadian Department of Finance review

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • February 23 2012

In December 2011, the federal government launched a consultation aimed at updating Canada’s regime for combating money laundering and terrorist financing

Canadian government proposes comprehensive amendments to anti-money laundering legislation

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 10 2012

On December 21, 2011, the Canadian federal government released a consultation paper (the Consultation Paper) containing certain proposals to strengthen Canada’s anti-money laundering (AML) and anti-terrorist financing (ATF) legislative framework, which is administered through the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLA) and related regulations (collectively, AML Legislation

Proposed amendments to Canadian anti-money laundering legislation

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • November 17 2011

On November 7, 2011, the Canadian federal government released a consultation paper proposing certain amendments to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act and related regulations (AML Legislation

The new U.K. Bribery Act and its implications for Canadian companies

  • Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
  • -
  • Canada, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • July 25 2011

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