Barbara has practiced in the securities and corporate areas for nearly 30 years, including with a leading international law firm, a leading national law firm, a Vancouver based boutique securities law firm, as senior legal counsel with the Ontario Securities Commission and, for the last 14 years, her own boutique law firm. As a former regulator and experienced securities lawyer, Barbara brings a special combination of skills and abilities to assist her clients.
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has published CSA Staff Notice 81-332, Next Steps on Proposals to Prohibit Certain Investment Fund Embedded Commissions (the Staff Notice). The document details…
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) have updated the timeline for the handover of responsibility of oversight of syndicated mortgage investments from FSRA to the OSC. The…
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) has provided an update for its intentions to provide burden reduction for syndicated mortgage investments. While earlier introducing a new supervisory approach to higher-risk syndicated mortgages marketed…
Canada’s financial watchdog, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), has published updated requirements for the identification of certain individuals or corporations or entities, Methods to Verify the Identity of an Individual…
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Ontario has taken its first steps in bringing financial planners and financial advisors (planners and advisors) under its aegis, by opening…
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has published a year-end update on its burden reduction efforts for Ontario capital market participants, Reducing Regulatory Burden in Ontario’s Capital Markets, 2019 (the Update). In OSC Staff Notice 11-784,…
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and the participating jurisdictions of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia (the Participating Jurisdictions) have signed a cooperation agreement (the Agreement) with the Monetary…
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has completed its review of the disclosure of 70 Canadian Cannabis industry registrants, CSA Staff Notice 51-357, Staff Review of Reporting Issuers in the Cannabis Industry (the Staff Notice). Prior…
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has acted to protect the investors of one BC-based cryptocurrency exchange while launching an investigation against a second. On October 31, 2019 the counsel representing the Vancouver-based Einstein Exchange…
The Ontario Securities Commission has granted limited-time approval to TokenGX Inc. (TokenGX or the Company) for the creation of a blockchain-based security token (token). TokenGX sought approval to create its blockchain-based security token trading platform…