Suhuyini Abudulai

Partner

Toronto
[email protected]
416.367.6732

Suhuyini’s practice focuses on transactional and regulatory matters in financial services, with a particular expertise in Canadian consumer protection laws and the regulation of financial services in Canada.

Suhuyini regularly provides advice to clients in respect to financial services regulation in Canada including financial institutions regulation, consumer finance/consumer protection, documentation, disclosure and licensing, consumer finance compliance matters, debt collection, credit reporting, unfair practices, anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing, sanctions, anticorruption, payments and cards, new product and services launches, and corporate finance.

Suhuyini is also a prolific author and speaker on various topics related to consumer financial services, the payments industry, and the regulation of financial services.

Beyond Our Walls

Professional Involvement

  • Co-Chair, Small and Medium Bank Forum
  • Member, Department of Finance Canada, Advisory Committee on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
  • Chair, Membership Committee of the Consumer Financial Services Committee, American Bar Association
  • Member, Marketing Board, American Bar Association
  • Member, Consumer Law Committee of the Business Law Section, Ontario Bar Association

Community Involvement

  • Member, Membership and Retreat and Events Committee, Black Female Lawyers Network (BFLN)

Awards & Recognitions

  • Best Lawyers in Canada (2025)
  • Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)
  • Chambers Canada (Banking & Finance: Financial Services Regulatory)
  • Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Financial Institutions Regulation – Ontario)
  • IFLR1000 (Financial Services Regulatory, Banking)
  • Who’s Who Legal: Canada (Banking)
  • Lexpert, Rising Star Award (2020)
  • Windsor Law, Alumni Award (Access to Justice) (2019)
  • Lawyer Monthly Magazine, Lawyer100 Canada Award (2018)
  • Precedent Magazine, Precedent Setter Award (2016)
  • Canadian Business Magazine, Change Agent Award (2016)

Bar Admission & Education

  • Ontario, 2009
  • B.A. Advanced Double Major: Political Science & Economics, Dalhousie University, 2003
  • LL.B., University of Windsor, 2008