Robert E. Elliott

Partner

Robert Elliott's practice focuses on the business and affairs of financial services providers. He advises clients about regulatory approval and compliance issues, corporate governance, outsourcing and other transactions, anti-money laundering laws, demutualizations and other matters. His clients include domestic and foreign banks, foreign bank branches, insurance and trust companies, ombudsman services, unregulated financial services providers, and financial services trade associations. Robert was seconded to the Canadian Bankers Association for a two-year period to advise on the 1997 revisions to federal financial institutions legislation. He has participated in the writing of numerous submissions to governments and government agencies on various policy and legal issues. He serves as a representative on a financial sector legislation advisory group consulted by the Department of Finance on financial institutions legislative review. Robert is the National Co-Chair of the firm's Financial Institutions and Services Group and Vice-Chair of the Business Law Section of the Toronto office.

Selected Experience

Bulletin written by Financial Institutions Group receives MONDAQ award for most popular article

Publications

Presentations

Member, Canadian Bar Association
Member, International Bar Association

Community Involvement

General Editor, Butterworths' National Banking Law Review

Honours and Awards

Robert has been repeatedly rated as a leading practitioner in banking in the IFLR 1000, The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms

Toronto
416 865 4382
416 364 7813 fax

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B.A. (Hons.) Summa Cum Laude, 1980
McMaster University
M.A., 1982
Queen's University
LL.B., 1988
Queen's University

Ontario, 1990