The Canada-US Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC) - What is it and How is it Changing Cross-Border Business?

Feb 29th, 1pm Eastern

In December 2011, U.S. President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled two initiatives with the aim of promoting and pursuing common interests in trade and security and in aligning the regulatory approaches of the two countries. These two initiatives - the Beyond the Border Action Plan and the Regulatory Cooperation Council Action Plan - promise to ease the flow of trade, lower production costs for manufacturers, and increase harmonization between the regulatory requirements applicable to industries such as agriculture & food, health and personal care products and the automotive industry.

This webinar will provide a high level overview of the Beyond the Border and Regulatory Cooperation Action Plans and focus on the opportunities regulatory harmonization could represent for industry.

You are invited to join Emily Larose, Partner - Advocacy Group at Cassels Brock, for an online interactive webinar, compliments of Firmex.

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About the Speaker: Emily Larose

Emily is a partner in Cassels Brock’s Advocacy Group. She provides advice and representation to stakeholders in various regulated industries, with specific expertise working with Health Canada-regulated clients. She has experience advising on all manner of regulatory issues, risk management and policy matters and applies her regulatory expertise to product liability and class action litigation.

Among other things, Emily has worked with clients:

Providing advice to pharmaceutical, medical device, food and natural health product manufacturers on marketing compliance, labelling, licensing and mandatory problem and adverse event reporting.
Providing strategic counsel in the face of actual and suspected contaminated or defective product issues, including recall management and related litigation.
Outlining the potential implications of legislative change in areas such as health information privacy, the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act and the Ontario Drug Benefit Program.
Making and responding to federal and provincial access to information requests.
Advising on product liability issues including managing product complaints and risk management issues as well as defending product liability and class action claims.

As a member of the firm’s Risk Management Committee, Emily is well versed in developing practical and proactive solutions to manage and prevent risk exposure through policy development, implementation of best practices and maximizing the use of technologies.

About Cassels Brock

Toronto-based law firm of more than 200 lawyers focused on serving the transaction, advocacy and advisory needs of Canada’s most dynamic business sectors
Emphasis on core practice areas of corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate finance, tax, intellectual property, real estate, international business and government relations
One of the largest business law practices in Canada, serving multinational, national and mid-market entities and dedicated to value-driven public and private M&A, financing and other transactional work
Consistently ranked at or near the top of Bloomberg and Thomson Financial deals league tables for M&A and equity offerings. Cited as market leaders by Chambers Global, ALM 500, Best Lawyers, Lexpert, Global Counsel and others
Acted on deals honoured at the Canadian Dealmakers’ Gala every year since its inception
Represented winners at the Canadian General Counsel Awards annually since 2008
Dedicated to staying on the leading edge of trends in law and business to offer timely proactive and preventative advice that adds demonstrable value
Serving leadership roles in business, political, civic, charitable and cultural organizations in community, national and international organizations. Affiliations with premier law firms in other jurisdictions across Canada and internationally

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