Chris and Kurt sit down with Larry Ritchie of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, and Stephanie Greenwald of RSM to talk about distinctions between US and Canadian securities regulation and enforcement, and how we should think about emerging cross-border issues.
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Lawrence Ritchie
Lawrence Ritchie is a litigator and former securities regulator. He chairs Osler’s cross-disciplinary Risk Management and Crisis Response practice group and co-leads its national Capital Markets Regulatory Enforcement and Broker-Dealer Disputes team. Among other things, he advises public corporations, their directors, officers, and in-house counsel on avoiding, preparing for, managing and responding to extraordinary “crisis” situations, including regulatory investigations and actions that flow from them. He acts for clients in connection with conducting and responding to internal and regulatory investigations, and defends parties in regulatory proceedings, class actions and related litigation. He has extensive experience, in particular, in identifying and addressing regulatory and other enforcement issues encountered by participants in the Canadian capital markets, as well as on corruption matters, providing proactive corporate governance and other risk management advisory services, and represents clients when necessary to address relevant matters with regulators, self-regulatory organizations and in the courts.
Stephanie Greenwald
Stephanie is a partner in the litigation and valuation services group and has over nineteen years of experience in economic loss and damages quantification. She worked initially at an international accounting firm before devoting her time to building up a boutique firm, specializing in litigation support. Stephanie has worked on numerous litigation support assignments for both plaintiff and defense counsel involving accident benefit claims, economic losses relating to personal injury, medical malpractice, and fatalities as well as business interruption. She has authored over 1,500 reports on economic losses, housekeeping/home maintenance costs, costs of care, and dependency losses and has been qualified to testify in courts in Ontario.
Stephanie has developed and presented lectures on developing the economic loss claim, loss of dependency income and housework, the impact of participation considerations on income losses, loss of pension income, and the discount of future income streams.
