Investigations

Every misconduct allegation puts your business at a crossroads. If you handle it right, you demonstrate strong governance; if you handle it wrong, you could risk everything. Our investigations answer the right question, demonstrate responsibility, transparency, and accountability, and position your business for what’s next.

Sandeep Joshi formerly headed BMO Financial Group’s Canadian Corporate Investigations team and knows how to conduct investigations that strengthen your business.

We conduct independent investigations across Canada into all forms of misconduct, including breaches of law and internal policy, financial impropriety, conflicts of interest and procurement violations, discrimination, and harassment. We deliver fair, thorough, confidential investigations with the urgency these moments demand.

We also advise boards, committees, independent directors, and executives on investigation-related issues and strategy, and represent parties participating in investigations.

Representative Experience in Investigations

Our lawyers have conducted investigations into:

• Executives, including CEOs, CFOs, and other C-suite roles, across financial services, consumer products, manufacturing, and technology companies, for alleged financial improprieties, conflicts of interest, statutory breaches, internal policy breaches, misuse and disclosure of confidential information, procurement violations, harassment, discrimination, and assault.
• Employees at all levels of a major financial institution for alleged misconduct ranging from internal policy breaches to financial impropriety to serious criminal activity.
• Athletes, coaches, and executives regarding alleged sexual, physical, and psychological maltreatment, discrimination, grooming, and boundary transgressions in elite-level sports across Canada.
• Organizational issues involving significant legal, regulatory, financial, or reputational risk, including the largest external cybersecurity breach in Canadian financial services history and related fraud and privacy violations involving customer information.