• The establishment and regulation of a variety of regulated and unregulated financial service providers
• Regulatory issues arising in transactions involving financial institutions, such as acquisitions, dispositions, amalgamations, reorganizations, investments, financings, outsourcing, securitizations and cross-border services
• Compliance programs and corporate governance for financial institutions
• The development of financial services and products such as deposits, loans, money transfers, Internet payments, credit, debit and prepaid cards (issuing and acquiring programs), and other payment services, leases, investments and insurance products, including regulatory compliance, anti-money laundering compliance, consumer protection issues, third party contracts, and product documentation and instructions
• Distribution arrangements relating to financial services and products
• Letters of credit and other payment instruments

In The Best Lawyers in Canada 2010, Dawn was voted by peers as one of the leading lawyers in Canada in the area of banking law (regulatory), and in Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers 2009, she was nominated by in-house counsel and by peers to appear in this guide as one of the pre-eminent practitioners in the world. She is also recognized as a leading lawyer in financial services regulation in the 2010 edition of IFLR1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financing Law Firms, Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2010 and The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2010.

Dawn has participated in the management of the Firm, having served as a member of the Executive Committee, the Compensation Committee and the Nominations Committee.