White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
Canada Guide 2025 : Nationwide - Canada
Band 1
Contact number
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Provided by Norton Rose Fulbright
Drawing upon our deep subject matter experience in diverse areas including securities, anti-corruption, and competition, and in a variety of industry groups, such as resource extraction, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and government procurement, our team is skilled in all aspects of white-collar criminal practice.
Our work includes the management of complex investigations into potential regulatory and criminal wrongdoing, advising companies concerning whistleblower allegations, assisting with the creation of internal compliance programs and policies relating to corruption, insider trading, bid rigging and other criminal and quasi-criminal activities, the defence of criminal, quasi-criminal and regulatory investigations and proceedings, fraud and asset tracing, and defence of complex class actions involving allegations of regulatory and criminal breaches. Many of these matters have international and/or cross border aspects or implications.
Chambers Review
Norton Rose Fulbright is an international law firm with a skilled and well-established corporate criminal defence group in Canada, with offices in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver and Montréal. The team advises clients from a diverse range of industries on securities litigation and anti-corruption matters. Its investigations work incorporates criminal and regulatory wrongdoing, internal investigations and asset tracing. Norton Rose is particularly well known among market commentators for its leading role in high-profile anti-corruption and fraud investigations for clients in the construction and manufacturing industry in Québec.
Work Highlights
- Norton Rose Fulbright conducted an investigation for the Special Independent Committee of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, which was alleged to have reimbursed two influential Chinese individuals for a donation they had made to the foundation.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"A great team that worked tirelessly in a challenging environment. Norton Rose is among the best I have ever dealt with globally. Every lawyer on this file exceeds my expectations."
"They are very good litigators, an experienced team and always available. The lawyers that work on our files are very experienced, knowledgeable and passionate about their work."
"Norton Rose Fulbright have a very experienced and knowledgeable team who are very prompt to respond and action items quickly."
"Very proactive and strong strategic approach to the matters. They are always on time and available."
"Norton Rose have extremely competent team members with varied strengths and diverse expertise. The team is always available, very prepared and responsive to client requests."
"A great team that worked tirelessly in a challenging environment. Norton Rose is among the best I have ever dealt with globally. Every lawyer on this file exceeds my expectations."
"They are very good litigators, an experienced team and always available. The lawyers that work on our files are very experienced, knowledgeable and passionate about their work."
"Norton Rose Fulbright have a very experienced and knowledgeable team who are very prompt to respond and action items quickly."
"Very proactive and strong strategic approach to the matters. They are always on time and available."
"Norton Rose have extremely competent team members with varied strengths and diverse expertise. The team is always available, very prepared and responsive to client requests."
Notable Practitioners
François Fontaine, Ad E has an impressive reputation for his representation of individuals facing a range of criminal allegations, including tax evasion and fraud, as well as issues involving immigration and professional discipline. He is based in Montréal, where he heads Norton Rose Fulbright's white-collar crime group.
"Always very sensitive and delicate - what I like about François is his ability to navigate investigations and the intersection between compliance and dealing with the authorities."
Frédéric Plamondon is based in Norton Rose Fulbright's Montréal office and has a broad litigation practice, with a specific emphasis on white-collar defence, securities litigation and class actions. He advises corproations, public issuers and market participants in a wide range of investigations, frauds and other financial crime proceedings.
"Frédéric is a very experienced counsel."
"Frédéric is a pleasure to work with and very competent at his role."
"Frédéric is providing fully excellent service in this investigation."
Stephen Nattrass is based in Ottawa, where he heads Norton Rose Fulbright's regulations and investigations team. He focuses his practice on a range of regulatory issues, predominantly related to business ethics, anti-corruption, anti-trust and competition, economic sanctions, international trade, privacy and procurement.
"Stephen is an exceptional lawyer who is very experienced in these matters."
"Stephen is very personable, polite and has a good sense of humour."
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