About Ross McGowan

Ross provides a broad range of compliance, risk management and litigation support, with a focus on assisting financial institutions in combating fraud and corruption. He also advises clients in operations, payment systems, policy advice and regulatory compliance matters.

Within his practice, Ross works with a variety of insurers to provide coverage and subrogation advice relating to fraud losses, bondability of employees, policy design and defence of claims. Ross’ expertise also extends to commercial leasing disputes, advising landlords, property managers and tenants on an array of issues.

Represented Canadian Premier Life Insurance Company in its acquisition of Gerber Life Insurance Company’s Canadian insurance business from U.S.-based Western & Southern Financial Group.
Litigation counsel and strategic advisor for numerous specialty insurers (fidelity, D&O, professional E&O) on a range of compliance obligations, policy design, coverage opinions, subrogated claims and defence matters.
Advisor to organizations on anti-corruption and bribery policies, also providing investigation support, incident response and litigation counsel to organizations and boards facing crises.
Advised and drafted account-operating agreements and operation protocols for multi-provincial, national and international use by credit unions and banks for both retail consumer banking and business banking.
Provides internal training seminars to credit unions, banks and financial services industry groups on a wide array of risk management and regulatory compliance matters including privacy law, AML, payments systems, retail banking operations, compliance and risk management.