White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Canada Guide 2025 : Nationwide - Canada
Band 3
Contact number
+1 416-367-6000About
Provided by Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Canadian authorities are aggressively pursuing business crimes, investigations and compliance matters. Our Investigations and White Collar Crime team are poised to quickly and strategically respond in a crisis. We recognize that the challenges clients face are often multi-faceted, and that managing reputational risk is a forefront consideration.
Our national practice encompasses all areas of white collar defence work, including matters under the Criminal Code, Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, Competition Act, Income Tax Act, Customs Act and provincial taxation and securities legislation. We have advised on several of the highest profile white collar and regulatory prosecutions in Canadian history. We are routinely engaged to assist in: responding to search warrants, documentary summonses and production orders; defending corporations, directors and officers in criminal and regulatory investigations and prosecutions; conducting internal investigations into allegations of corporate and employee misfeasance; preparing for audits and conducting due diligence; and navigating complex cross-border and multijurisdictional investigations and enforcement actions.
Our experienced team includes senior staff from the Ontario Securities Commission, the Alberta Securities Commission and the Canadian Competition Bureau. While our goal is to have matters resolved at the investigative stage, when proceedings are instituted, the courtroom experience of our lawyers is second to none.
Chambers Review
Borden Ladner Gervais operates a prominent investigations and white-collar defence group with experience in a range of mandates, including securities work, tax evasion and sanctions breaches. The firm is also particularly well regarded for its solid anti-corruption practice, which has been consulted at both domestic and international levels by clients in the natural resources and technology sectors. Its Toronto and Calgary-based lawyers additionally represent individual clients facing criminal prosecution.
Work Highlights
- Borden Ladner Gervais represented Binance in proceedings seeking to revoke a summons issued against it by the Ontario Securities Commission.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"BLG has strong, decisive and practical leadership, carried with a highly professional culture, fielding teams with depth of experience and knowledge at all levels."
"BLG are always responsive to client demands. Emails are responded to within 24 hours at the latest."
"BLG has a comprehensive, full sweep of legal services in the securities space. I know I can go to them and get anything sorted. They also have significant trial experience."
"BLG has strong, decisive and practical leadership, carried with a highly professional culture, fielding teams with depth of experience and knowledge at all levels."
"BLG are always responsive to client demands. Emails are responded to within 24 hours at the latest."
"BLG has a comprehensive, full sweep of legal services in the securities space. I know I can go to them and get anything sorted. They also have significant trial experience."
Notable Practitioners
Graeme Hamilton has an impressive courtroom pedigree, leading high-profile tax evasion and corruption criminal defence cases. Based in Borden Ladner Gervais's Toronto office, he is national co-chair of the firm's investigations and white-collar defence group.
"Graeme is a strong practitioner in the white-collar space in Canada."
"I would trust Graeme Hamilton with the most complex criminal and regulatory matters. His dedication to his clients and his arguments is evident in each pen stroke."
"Graeme is a very good lawyer."