The proprietors of the website, Harold Geller and John Hollander, are lawyers with the Financial Loss Recovery division of Doucet McBride LLP. Together they have over 45 years experience.
Harold and John have the unusual experience of working both sides of the street. Both have extensive experience working with financial advisors and investors on compliance, regulatory and investment issues.
Primarily, Harold and John help clients recover financial losses resulting from the negligence or intentional wrongful acts of financial advisors.
Harold is a frequent speaker at investment industry conferences hosted by voluntary organizations (such as Advocis, CiFPs, RFPs). Harold is regularly consulted by financial advisors’ trade journals on a wide range of industry issues. He is a moderator of the independent online forum www.foradvisorsonly.com and a member of the Canadian Institute of Financial Planners (CiFPs) Regulatory & Government Relations Committee and the Member Conduct Committee.
John was a founding member of the Ontario Securities Commission’s Investor Advisory Committee. He has made a presentation to a committee of the Ontario Legislature on securities regulation and is scheduled to present to the prestigious The Canadian Institute’s 8th Annual Advanced Forum on Securities Litigation and Enforcement on April 20-21, 2009.