About Virginia
Virginia Torrie is a lawyer and legal scholar with expertise in banking, financial regulation and insolvency law. Her work brings together legal practice, scholarship, public policy and institutional leadership.
Through Torrie Law, she provides independent legal advice and analysis where law, regulation and policy intersect, drawing on deep subject-matter knowledge and an understanding of the broader institutional and policy contexts in which financial law operates.
Legal Practice and Public Policy
Virginia advises on banking and financial institutions law, insolvency and restructuring, and questions involving the interaction of federal and provincial legal and regulatory regimes.
She has appeared as an expert witness before parliamentary committees considering banking, insolvency and financial legislation, addressing legal, regulatory and policy implications of proposed reforms.
Scholarship and Academic Leadership
Virginia was a tenured law professor and Associate Dean at the University of Manitoba.
Her scholarship focuses on banking and insolvency law, financial regulation and Canadian federalism. She has published extensively in these fields and is an author of the Annotated Bank Act, a leading reference on Canada’s federal banking legislation.
Virginia is Editor-in-Chief of the Banking & Finance Law Review, an international journal. She oversees its editorial direction and annual FinTech issue on emerging developments in financial technology and regulation.
Selected Credentials
JD · PhD (Law) · ICD.D
Member, Law Society of Ontario