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Transparency International Canada invites you for an online discussion about the impacts of COVID-19 on corruption. Some of the topics to be covered include corruption risks that could emerge during the pandemic, as well as the impact of the pandemic on white-collar crime investigations and prosecutions.
Speakers:
Paul Lalonde, Partner, Dentons Canada LLP (Moderator)
Natalie Rhodes, Policy Officer, Transparency International Health Initiative
Paul Emanuelli, General Counsel and Managing Director, The Procurement Office
Randall Hofley, Partner, Blakes
Anthony Cole, Partner, Dentons Canada LLP
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Paul Lalonde
Partner, Dentons Canada LLP
Paul Lalonde focuses on government contracting law, international trade, anti-corruption and international arbitration. Mr. Lalonde is one of Canada’s most decorated experts on government procurement. He is also a recognized expert in international trade and customs, with deep experience in anti-dumping and countervail investigations, customs, appeals, import and export controls, international sanctions, anti-corruption compliance and investigations and international business. He regularly advises clients on Canada’s international investment commitments, including Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and has played a key role in some of Canada’s highest profile trade disputes and negotiations including those on softwood lumber, steel and agricultural products.
Mr. Lalonde has been involved in the area of anti-corruption law since Canada adopted the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act in the 90’s. Since then he has assisted clients with respect to anti-corruption compliance through the entire spectrum of issues in this area, including developing compliance policies and programs, advising on business conduct issues, anti-corruption due diligence in transactions, internal investigations related to employee and third party conduct, RCMP and other enforcement authority investigations and dawn raids and advising on remediation agreements (DPA’s). He has been involved in extensive thought leadership in this area through his work with Transparency International Canada, including actin as Chair and President, and the Canadian Bar Association Anti-corruption Committee on topics such as whistle blower protections, victim reparations, deferred prosecution agreements, beneficial ownership transparency, money laundering, failure to prevent offences and facilitation payments.
Anthony Cole
Partner, Dentons Canada LLP
Anthony is a partner at Dentons’ Canada and the Co-lead of their the Canada Region White-Collar and Government Investigations Practice. Anthony regularly acts for clients on domestic and cross-border internal investigations, including anti-bribery matters. Anthony has also represented corporate and individual clients facing investigations by law enforcement bodies as well as in relation to criminal proceedings, and he has acted for parties to investor-state arbitrations involving allegations of corruption. In addition to being a Certified Anti-Money laundering Specialist, he is dual-qualified as both a Canadian and English lawyer. He is also the current Chair of the Legal Committee of TI Canada.
Paul Emanuelli
General Counsel and Managing Director, The Procurement Office
Paul Emanuelli is an internationally known author and procurement lawyer with over twenty years experience in public procurement. He has an extensive track record of public speaking, publishing and training and was recognized by Who’s Who Legal as one of the top ten public procurement lawyers in the world.
Paul’s portfolio focuses on major procurement projects with an emphasis on technology and public infrastructure. He has in-depth experience advising public bodies on the legal and strategic aspects of institutional governance and supply chain management, developing tendering formats and negotiating commercial transactions.
Paul is currently the Program Director of Osgoode Professional Development’s Certificate in Public Procurement Law and Practice and the Advanced Certificate in Procurement Law and Practice and an instructor with the University of West Indies Faculty of Law. He is the author of multiple publications, including the leading textbook Government Procurement (Lexis Nexis-Butterworths, 4th ed. 2017).
Before launching the Procurement Office, Paul practiced for over ten years as Crown Counsel with the Ontario Attorney General at Management Board Secretariat and Crown Law Office Civil, and headed the Government of Ontario’s Procurement Lawyers Group.
Randall Hofley
Partner, Blake, Cassels & Grayson LLP
Randall acts for leading companies on all aspects of competition law and the federal regulation of business, with a focus on contentious matters before the Canadian Competition Bureau and Competition Tribunal, and before all levels of Canadian courts and federal administrative tribunals. He brings to clients both his private-sector and public-sector experience, most recently serving as General Counsel and Senior Enforcement Advisor, Competition Bureau Legal Services (2018-19). He played a lead counsel role in numerous high-profile enforcement matters related to mergers, abuse of dominance, and deceptive marketing, in addition to a senior advisory role in (criminal) cartel matters.
Randall has litigated many of Canada’s most high-profile Competition Actcases, including the first abuse of dominance case to reach the Supreme Court of Canada, the only Federal Court of Appeal decision to address patents under the Act, the only (civil) price maintenance case, the first case considering the Act’s competitor collaboration provisions, the only appellate level case on the application of the Act’s cartel provisions to agreements between purchasers of goods or services, the only Competition Tribunal case to address the Regulated Conduct Doctrine, and numerous cases developing standards for cartel prosecutions and class-action certification and defences in the cartel context.
Natalie Rhodes
Policy Officer, Transparency International Health Initiative
Natalie Rhodes works for the Transparency International Health Initiative (TI HI), the global health programme of the global anti-corruption organisation Transparency International hosted by TI UK. She joined TI HI after gaining an MSc in Global Health from Maastricht University where she conducted a research project into buyer’s clubs and access to medicines. She sits on the European Coordinating Committee for Universities Allied for Essential Medicines and is on the UK working group for the People’s Health Movement.