Webinar #1 | Part One: De-Mystifying Digital Assets and Recognizing When Digital Asset Issues Arise (1:28:17)

Date: September 25, 2025
Location: Online

 

WEBINAR PART ONE | DE-MYSTIFYING DIGITAL ASSETS AND RECOGNIZING WHEN DIGITAL ASSET ISSUES ARISE

Topics:

  • What are we Talking About and Why Does it Matter?
    The basics on the blockchain, digital assets and why investment (and fraud and disputes) in Web3 will only grow, as will their impact on everyday court processes.

  • Where to Start in the Courts?
    When might digital assets become the subject matter of court cases and what issues and questions arise when they do; from injunctions to valuations and interim custody, and everything in between

  • What are Some Concrete Examples of Dispositions in the Courts?

    • Civil Cases: asset tracing, valuation, damages quantification, class action claims administration, interim custody and preservation;

    • Criminal Cases: warrant powers for investigative searches, dealing with laundered assets, asset recovery and assistance orders;

    • Bankruptcy and Insolvency Case: asset tracing, preservation and recovery from bankrupts, and business dissolution;

    • Family and Estates Cases: identification and tracing of digital assets, interim custody and division of ‘family digital assets’, equalization and support orders;

    • Intellectual Property Cases: IP and copyright infringement, valuation and damages quantification;

    • Corporate Law Cases: shareholder disputes, corporate governance and liability in decentralized organizations;

    • Regulatory Cases: compliance frameworks and enforcement, market conduct oversight including disclosures and market manipulation and asset freezing measures;

    • Tax Cases : dispositions of digital assets, treatments for tax purposes and consequences of trading (income rules on staking, trading)

Bilingual program with simultaneous interpretation.

 

Panelists:

Benjamin Bathgate, WeirFoulds, Chair – Commercial Litigation; Co-Chair – Blockchain and Digital Assets

Benjamin Bathgate is the Chair of WeirFoulds’ Commercial Litigation Practice Group and Co-Chair of its Blockchain and Digital Assets Practice Group. His practice focuses on complex, high stakes fraud, digital asset recovery and commercial litigation. Ben is widely recognized in the crypto industry as the go-to digital asset investigations and recovery lawyer in Canada. He is faculty for Osgoode Law School’s Web3, Blockchain and Metaverse Law certificate course, authors numerous relevant texts and articles and has interviewed with leading publications on digital asset matters, including with CoinDesk, CBC Fifth Estate, Globe and Mail, Canadian Lawyer, Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance.

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Amrit Dev, KPMG Forensic, Senior Manager – Digital Assets Forensics

Amrit Dev is a Senior Manager in KPMG’s Forensic practice in Toronto, specializing in digital asset investigations. With over nine years of experience in forensic mandates including fraud, money laundering, and asset tracing, she has developed deep expertise in blockchain analytics and cryptocurrency tracing. From 2021 to 2023, she worked in the Enforcement Division of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), investigating high-profile fraud cases involving digital assets. She now co-leads KPMG’s global forensic digital assets network and frequently presents to law firms and regulators on blockchain investigations.

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CPD HOURS

Participation in this program is accredited in provinces where CLE requirements for lawyers are mandatory.

  • Total: 1h
  • No EDI hours

 

FEES

Categories

Webinar 1

Webinar 2 (for judges only)*

Full series (for judges only)*
CIAJ Members Free Free Free
Non-Members $50 $50 $50 (the 2nd webinar is free)
Students $10 Not applicable Not applicable

* Webinar 2 and full series: for judges only

 

Webinar #1 | Part One: De-Mystifying Digital Assets and Recognizing When Digital Asset Issues Arise