Stephen Nattrass
Partner
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
Related services and key industries
Related services
- Antitrust and competition
- Business ethics and anti-corruption
- Cartels and antitrust investigations
- Information governance, privacy and cybersecurity
- Regulation and investigations
- Risk advisory
- Sanctions and export controls
- White-collar crime
- Crisis management
- WTO and international trade
- Food and agribusiness
- Litigation and disputes
Biography
Stephen Nattrass is the head of the regulations and investigations team in Canada, focusing on a wide variety of regulatory issues, including business ethics and anti-corruption, anti-trust and competition, privacy, international trade and economic sanctions, and procurement.
Mr. Nattrass' practice includes conducting internal investigations, designing and auditing codes of ethics and compliance programs, and training employees and third parties that require compliance with the CFPOA, the Criminal Code, and similar anti-corruption legislation around the world. He has interacted with the RCMP and the Public Prosecution Service of Canada regarding such matters. He has advised on internal investigations that span multiple jurisdictions and involve working with local legal counsel to ensure a coordinated approach with various authorities and other stakeholders. He also represents companies and individuals in audits before multilateral institutions such as the World Bank, and has appeared before the World Bank Sanctions Board.
His competition law experience includes reviews of mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Nattrass has also worked on reviewable practices such as refusal to deal and abuse of dominant position, as well as criminal and civil conspiracy, bid-rigging and restraint of trade issues. He has also attended at client offices during dawn raids by the Competition Bureau.
His privacy and anti-spam practice includes reviewing and updating privacy policies, employee handbooks, and procedures to ensure compliance with various federal and provincial privacy statues, with both private sector clients and crown corporations, as well as advising on privacy and data breaches. His access to information work includes both making and defending against requests at the federal, provincial, and municipal levels. He also advises on a broad range of privacy and CASL (anti-spam) legislative and regulatory issues.
Mr. Nattrass also regularly advises on economic sanctions and trade issues, including coordinating such advice with colleagues in other jurisdictions so that clients benefit from a coordinated approach.
Professional experience
Collapse allLL.B., University of Ottawa, 2010
B.Sc., University of the Fraser Valley, 2006
- Ontario 2011
- Ontario Bar Association
- Law Society of Upper Canada
Insights
Waiving privilege in regulatory investigations
Publication | October 02, 2023
Sanctions Regime: Overview (Canada)
Publication | May 01, 2023
Disputed: Canada’s economic sanctions regime | S3 EP3
Podcast | March 08, 2023