C. Duhaime specializes in financial crime and is a certified anti-money laundering specialist. She has practical experience in financial crime mitigation, investigations and anti-fraud from working at a national audit firm in Canada on financial crime and anti-money laundering advisory matters, assisting financial institutions and large institutional clients and from working at a global financial institution to detect, deter and stop fraudulent and suspicious transactions connected to online financial transactions. Her expertise in financial crime includes expertise in the law of politically exposed persons and the movements of money, asset recovery and investigations tied to China. She has consulted for magic circle law firms and government agencies on various legal, regulatory and investigation matters and consulted as a foreign expert in civil and commercial matters in China and handled asset recovery for Chinese owned banks.
Christine was an Adjunct Professor of Law and also a moot coach for international arbitration law where, with former Court of Appeal Justice, the Honourable Edward C. Chiasson, she instructed students on legal drafting and written advocacy for complex international proceedings. While at law school, she won two first place awards at an international moot competition. She was on the judicial advisory committee, a committee of the Canadian Bar Association, which assisted Association executives in vetting candidates to become judges in British Columbia.
She is a frequent speaker on financial crime, having been invited to speak by the US State Department to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, the United Nations UNICTRAL, the Financial Action Task Force and the Asian Development Bank. She is a member of an EU financial crime and AI scientific research project that seeks to improve suspicious transactional reporting using AI with a consortium of global banks, an FIU and several federal law enforcement agencies.
Christine has worked on various matters requiring certain security clearance levels including advising on the legislative powers of special constables and advising on government owned casino operational matters.
She is a member of the International Association of Financial Crime Investigators, the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists, the Association of Chiefs of Police, the Human Rights Lawyers Association and the Toronto Lawyers’ Association.
COUNTRIES OF EXPERTISE
AREAS Of expertise
Asset Tracing and Recovery, Investigations, Money Laundering Investigations, Business Intelligence, Counter Terrorist Financing, Combatting Organized Crime, Capital Markets Intelligence and Fraud, Central Bank Advisory, International Due Diligence, Digital Currencies, Digital Assets and Digital Asset Custody, Fraud and Foreign Corruption, Bitcoin Extortion Management, Network Analysis and Link Analysis, Politically Exposed Persons, Dispute Resolution
