Christine Duhaime
Christine Duhaime is a prominent lawyer specializing in counter-terrorist financing and anti-money laundering law practice. She advises on financial crime compliance, sanctions compliance for financial institutions, money services businesses, securities brokerages, casinos, law firms, and digital financial services. Duhaime is also a regular guest in the media, speaking on financial crime, terrorism, financial market regulation, digital currencies, ICOs, and blockchain.
- Duhaime is a financial crime advisor and a certified financial crime and anti-money laundering specialist.
- While at law school, she won two first-place awards at an international moot competition, becoming the only student at that law school to place first twice in one year at mooting.
- She also acts for banks and organizations to recover foreign assets in Canada, mostly related to Chinese foreign nationals and Chinese originating companies.
- She also consults for government agencies as an expert on litigation matters and financial transactions originating from China.
- She has consulted for select barristers and chambers in the UK, Hong Kong, and China in civil, commercial, and foreign criminal matters in China.
- She has testified several times before Committees of the House of Commons and the Senate of Canada on financial crime and technology matters.
- She previously wrote a legal text for casinos on reporting suspicious and terrorist financing transactions.
- She was featured in The Canadian Bar Association’s The National on how AI, Blockchain, and FinTech will change the practice of law.
- She has been ranked as one of the Top 100 Women in FinTech and Top 100 Most Influential in FinTech.
- Together with the University of Toronto Computer Science Department, she developed a free chatbot for Canadian lawyers to use to vet against terrorist and sanctions lists.
- She obtained the release of a First Nations inmate wrongfully incarcerated at the Kent maximum-security prison for over three years.
- She helped parents whose daughter had been murdered in British Columbia, recover her assets wrongfully held by the convicted murderers' family.
- She has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.