Banking, Bankruptcy & Insolvency
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December 22, 2025
Class action certified against RBC over Ponzi-type scheme
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has certified a class action against the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) in a case concerning a real estate investment Ponzi scheme.
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December 16, 2025
Ottawa sanctions four senior Iranian officials for gross human rights violations in Iran
Ottawa has imposed sanctions against four Iranian senior officials who the federal government says “have been involved in gross and systematic human rights violations” in the Islamic Republic of Iran where they “have had a significant role in facilitating and directing repressive policies.”
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December 12, 2025
Regulators shut down 3,900 fraudulent investment and crypto websites in 6 months
Canadian securities and investment regulators deactivated more than 3,900 fake investment platforms and cryptocurrency scam websites in less than six months, according to a release issued by the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) and Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) on Dec. 11.
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December 12, 2025
Segev welcomes gaming and payments lawyer Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Anderson has joined Segev LLP in Vancouver as a member of the firm’s gaming and gambling and payments practice groups.
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December 08, 2025
After statutory review of 18 groups listed as terrorist entities, Canada removes Syria’s HTS
In light of the political shifts in Syria’s governance following the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship last December, Canada has removed Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) from the list of terrorist entities in the Criminal Code.
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December 01, 2025
Carney hands new jobs to three lawyer-MPs in federal cabinet mini-shuffle
Following last week’s resignation of Montreal MP Steven Guilbeault from the federal Liberal cabinet, Prime Minister Mark Carney added one new minister to his cabinet and expanded the roles of two others in order to redistribute Guilbeault’s former cabinet responsibilities.
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December 01, 2025
Nonye Ngwaba joins DLA Piper’s restructuring team
Nonye Ngwaba has joined DLA Piper (Canada) LLP in Vancouver as an associate in the firm’s restructuring group.
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November 28, 2025
Court bars Binance to neutralizing class action through arbitration in Hong Kong
The Ontario Superior Court has issued a sweeping anti-suit injunction against cryptocurrency exchange Binance, holding that the company’s bid to initiate Hong Kong arbitration against class action plaintiffs amounts to an abusive collateral attack on prior rulings that its consumer arbitration clause was void as unconscionable and contrary to public policy.
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November 27, 2025
Canada and Alberta sign memo of understanding on pipelines, natural resources development
In a move the Liberal government says will help make Canada an “energy superpower,” Ottawa and Alberta signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that the two governments agreed would facilitate the construction and expansion of pipelines, thus enabling Western Canada to produce and sell more oil and gas (including liquefied natural gas), as well as expand the development of renewable energy, critical minerals, and other resources that the world needs.
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November 26, 2025
Alberta proposes legislation to boost economy and investor protections
The Government of Alberta has introduced amendments to “key pieces of legislation,” such as measures to “strengthen securities laws and combat contraband tobacco,” as well as a levy on AI data centres