Jacqueline Shinfield
Tell us about your background and career path to date (home town, undergrad and grad schools, why you wanted to be an attorney).
I am from Winnipeg, went to University of Winnipeg and Osgoode Hall Law School, I applied to law school because I thought I might be able to get in…..I really wanted to be an orthodontist but science and I do not get along.Tell us about your favorite thing to do outside of work.
Watch hockey (Winnipeg Jets fanatic), and go to Vegas.
What is best advice you have about how to be a successful attorney?
Be proactive in dealing with clients-not reactive- think about how new laws can affect them and reach out. Always be practical and make sure you understand their business so you can add value.
Which Supreme Court/District Court case are you most inspired by?
None really – but disappointed by Marcotte.
If you could visit any city in the world, where would you go and why?
Right now Amsterdam is on the top of my bucket list – the museums look amazing and the city seems to have such charm. I have also always wanted to go to Cambodia to see the killing fields.
Bio:
Jacqueline is a Partner in the Financial Services Group at Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. With over 20 years experience, Jacqueline is one of Canada’s leading financial services regulatory lawyers. Her practice focuses on all aspects of regulatory compliance in the retail financial services industry at both the federal and provincial level with a special emphasis on payment card compliance, money services businesses and anti-money laundering legislation. She provides advice to numerous Canadian and foreign providers of financial services including banks, foreign banks, trust companies,financing companies, payday loan companies, money services businesses, mortgage brokers, foreign exchange dealers, and gift and payment card networks, issuers, processors, retailers and service providers.
She has extensive experience providing advice in respect of Canada’s anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing legislation, the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act. In addition, Jacqueline has particular expertise in the payment card industry where she provides advice to payment card networks, credit card issuers, gift card issuers, prepaid card issuers, as well as to credit card and other payment processors and merchant acquirers. Jacqueline assists financial institutions in their dealings with the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada and also provides guidance to her clients on compliance with the requirements of the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation Act and applicable by-laws.
Jacqueline is recognized as a leading banking and financial services lawyer in the following publications: The Best Lawyers in Canada 2013, 2014, and 2015 and IFLR1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms – 2008 Edition. Jacqueline has recently been named one of Paybefore’s Top 10 Payments Lawyers for 2015. She is the only Canadian lawyer to receive this recognition.
Jacqueline Shinfield will be co-chairing ACI’s inaugural Canadian Forum on Economic Sanctions Compliance & Enforcement.
