OSC Announces New Securities Proceedings Advisory Committee Members

TORONTO – The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) is pleased to announce the updated membership of the Securities Proceedings Advisory Committee (SPAC).

The SPAC is an advisory committee to the Office of the Secretary to the Commission which provides comment and advice on a variety of policy and procedural initiatives relating to proceedings before the Commission’s administrative tribunal.

The committee consists of 10 to 12 members who are members in good standing of the Law Society of Upper Canada and who are currently practising, or have within the last three years practised, in the area of securities litigation. Members serve staggered, three-year terms.

The Office of the Secretary would like to thank the SPAC members whose terms expired in January 2017, for their valuable contributions.

The incoming members of SPAC are:

Andrea Burke Andrew Gray Jessica Kimmel Shara Roy Usman Sheikh

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Torys LLP Goodmans LLP Lenczner Slaght LLP Gowling WLG

 

The continuing members are:

Wendy Berman Alexander Cobb Emily Cole Linda Fuerst Paul LeVay Melissa MacKewn Janice L. Wright

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Miller Thomson LLP  Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP Stockwoods LLP Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP Wright Temelini LLP

 

The following Staff of the Enforcement Branch of the Commission are members of the SPAC:

Johanna Superina Heidi Franken Yvonne Chisholm

Deputy Director, Enforcement, OSC Acting Deputy Director, Enforcement, OSC Senior Litigation Counsel

 

Grace Knakowski, the Secretary to the Commission, chairs the SPAC and the following Staff of the Office of the Secretary are also members:

Robert Blair Carolyn Slon

Manager, Adjudication Legal Services, Office of the Secretary, OSC Senior Legal Counsel, Office of the Secretary, OSC (secretary to SPAC)

Additional information about SPAC, including its mandate is available on the OSC’s website.

The mandate of the OSC is to provide protection to investors from unfair, improper or fraudulent practices and to foster fair and efficient capital markets and confidence in the capital markets. Investors are urged to check the registration of any persons or company offering an investment opportunity and to review the OSC investor materials available at www.osc.ca.

 

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