Julie's dual practice focuses on securities registrant regulation and compliance and mergers and acquisitions.
She has considerable experience in advising derivatives and securities market participants on Canadian registration requirements and compliance, as well as risk-management matters. As a trusted adviser, she has an active private M&A practice that caters specifically to securities registrants, marketplace participants, fintech and financial institutions. Her clients include:
- dealers, futures commission merchants, commodity trading advisers and foreign exchange dealers
- trading platforms, alternative trading systems and marketplace participants and related technology service providers
- digital asset (tokenized securities, NFTs and crypto currency) creators, developers and distributors
- money services businesses (for both fiat and virtual currency)
- commodity producers and physical metal brokers
- domestic and foreign asset managers
She also provides regulatory advice on topics such as:
- emerging financial services products that are web and app-based, including crowdfunding platforms, lending and investment platforms, cryptocurrencies, digital assets, blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) and robo-advisers
- high frequency and algorithmic trading
- proprietary trading activities
- the development and distribution of novel over-the-counter derivative products including crypto derivatives, contracts for difference (CFDs) and foreign exchange (FX) to investors in Canada
- provision of agricultural risk management products to Canadian commodity producers
- anti-money laundering and terrorist financing
- corporate reorganizations, acquisitions, mergers and divestitures for securities registrants, market participants and financial institutions