Fraud Law

We help clients investigate, stop, and recover from fraud and financial misconduct, combining strategic legal action with global reach to protect assets and mitigate risk.
Key Contacts
Caylor LincolnMohamed MunafWard Maureen
Business chair

Overview

The Bennett Jones Fraud Law Group has extensive experience providing strategic, results-oriented advice on the full spectrum of issues arising from economic crimes.

Economic crimes threaten significant financial harm to both individuals and businesses. This threat expands as commerce and crime take on more technical and international aspects. There are additional layers of complexity for investigating and recovering funds cost-effectively, and new standards to minimize the risks of fraud, money laundering and other financial misconduct.

Bennett Jones is here to help. Our Fraud Law Group has extensive experience responding to all manner of economic crimes. We stand ready to investigate and stop asset misappropriation, trace and freeze assets, implement loss-mitigation strategies and pursue comprehensive recovery, including through the courts, to achieve our clients� goals. We also regularly enforce foreign judgments and arbitral awards, advise on compliance with anti-money laundering laws, regulations and best practices, and strategize in response to corruption, "white collar" or other regulatory proceedings.

To best serve clients, our Fraud Law Group has local expertise and broad international reach spanning all business sectors. We have made crucial contacts and forged long-standing relationships with law enforcement, private investigators, forensic consultants and external auditors. This deep network is used on demand to ensure that our clients benefit from cutting-edge strategies and technologies, and can access trusted expertise in jurisdictions where their specific needs must be met.

Our Fraud Law Group also benefits from its place within Bennett Jones, a large, multi-service firm with well-integrated practice groups equipped to address the full range of legal issues that may follow economic crimes. The breadth of the firm's practice�everything from securities, real estate, corruption, restructuring and insolvency and tax, to employment, data protection and cybercrime�allows for the quick assembly of an effective, multidisciplinary team ready to take action when fraud or other financial misconduct surfaces.

Areas of Expertise

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Investigations and Asset Tracing

Anti-Money Laundering

Asset Freezing and Preservation

Asset Recovery Claims

Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and Awards

Corruption, White-Collar Defence and Regulatory

Data Protection and Cybercrime

Group Members' Credentials and Memberships

  • International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators (Co-founder)
  • International Fraud Group
  • Chambers Canada – White Collar Crime & Government Investigations
  • Chambers: Litigation Support – Asset Tracing & Recovery
  • Who's Who Legal: Asset Recovery (Thought Leaders Global Elite)
  • Who’s Who Legal: Litigation (Thought Leaders – Litigation)
  • Expert Guides – White Collar Crime, Canada
  • Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory – Litigation – Corporate Commercial
  • Association of Certified Forensic Investigators

Client Work

2041366 Alberta
in the tracing, location and freezing of assets following the fraudulent misappropriation of government support by a corporate hotel manager
Chicago Title Insurance
in more than 20 pieces of litigation concerning a complicated mortgage fraud scheme orchestrated by organized crime
HMB Holdings
in enforcement proceedings in BC and Ontario arising from the expropriation by Antigua and Barbuda of its 108-acre resort property, resulting in a multi-million-dollar award
In connection with the money laundering investigation by Canadian authorities regarding proceeds of a US$230-million tax refund fraud uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky and the implementation of the Canadian "Magnitsky Act"
Kobayashi Kyohodo
in the litigation related to, and in the recovery of losses from, a land banking real estate investment scheme in Ontario
KSV Restructuring
in recovering nearly C$100 million stolen from certain investors in a syndicated mortgage scheme
Advising a large US client embroiled in litigation in Florida against a Canadian who, through a fraudulent invoicing and accounting scheme, allegedly defrauded our client in excess of US$50 million
Advising a major US hedge fund in a private arbitration seeking the recovery of C$150 million paid for the purchase of an interest in a Canadian company
Orion Resource Partners
in the defence of a C$400-million claim by Lithium Royalty concerning the enforceability of revenue-based royalties from the Thacker Pass mine in Nevada
Pipestone Energy
in the defence of a claim by TD Bank and TD Securities alleging that Blackbird paid inappropriate consulting fees to a TD employee
Raiffeisen Bank International
in its claims for recovery in an alleged large-scale asset-stripping fraud perpetrated by one or more of its clients involving BC–based companies
Shanghai Lianyin Investment
in the enforcement of its C$233-million CIETAC arbitral award in Ontario to recover assets from an individual connected to defrauding investors
Tahakom Investments Company
a group of Saudi companies in advancing US$5.3 billion of fraud claims in Canada against a high-ranking former Minister of Cabinet in the former Saudi government
Teneo
in recognition proceedings related to the insolvency of the multi-billion-dollar cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital involving losses of US$5 billion to $8 billion
For the joint liquidators of a defrauded Antiguan offshore bank in recovery efforts arising from losses in the amount of $5.5 billion, the world's second largest Ponzi scheme
For a Swiss-based organization in a first-of-its-kind application for a Norwich Pharmacal "disclosure" order to obtain information for use in connection with a potential private criminal ...
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Yukos Oil
for a former shareholder in proceedings before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice by the Russian Federation for the set-aside of an interim-award related to an Energy Charter Treaty arbitration
For a large group of investors in an alleged Ponzi-type ticket brokering scheme, including the obtaining of orders for pre-judgment locating and freezing of assets and other extraordinary relief
For a group of investors in obtaining an order freezing the worldwide assets of defendants with business in Europe and Africa and preventing one defendant from leaving the jurisdiction ...
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For a major financial institution in a fraud recovery lawsuit to seek recovery of losses arising from a sophisticated cheque-kiting scheme involving the cycling of hundreds of millions of dollars in Canada and the United States
For a significant international payment facilitator in connection with advice on application of relevant Canadian anti-money laundering laws and regulations, including under the Canadian Criminal Code
For the plaintiffs in a class proceeding seeking recovery for Canada's largest Ponzi scheme, with losses to investors of approximately $400 million
A national non-profit organization, in recovering funds and other property wrongfully misappropriated to form a competing organization
Atlas Copco Canada
in a forum dispute with certain defendants in an action alleging fraud
Proposed representative plaintiffs in a class action relating to an alleged Ponzi scheme alleged to have received in excess of $100 million from Albertan and Canadian investors
Commissioner of Competition
in Commissioner of Competition v. Superior Propane Ltd. and ICG Propane et al, the first contested merger application to apply the efficiencies defence
Exide Canada
in its application pursuant to s.132 of the Ontario Business Corporations Act to set aside an improvident contract underpinning approximately $18 million worth of counterclaims ...
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Hewlett Packard (Canada)
in the pursuit of wrongdoers in a $160-million fraud case
Rouge Valley Health Services
in an appeal involving the fictitious payee defence under the Bills of Exchange Act
Successfully opposing motion for a stay of proceedings, sealing order and other ancillary relief, Prudential Consulting Inc. v. Correia, et al., [2008] O.J. No. 403 (S.C.J.)
The plaintiff, in a case involving conspiracy to commit security fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud charges against a private citizen. Gilliland Estate v. Canada (Attorney ...
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Recognitions

Chambers Canada
Band 1, White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations

Chambers Litigation Support
Ranked, Global-wide Asset Tracing & Recovery

The Legal 500 Canada
Ranked, Tier 1, Dispute resolution: Alberta
Ranked, Dispute resolution: Ontario
Chambers Global
Band 2, Disputes (International & Cross Border)
Global Investigations Review: GIR 100
Ranked as a leading firm globally in Investigations
Who's Who Legal Asset Recovery
Ranked, Asset Recovery
Mohamed Munaf

Munaf Mohamed KC

Lead Director and Partner

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