Notice of Settlement Hearing

NOTICE is hereby given that a hearing will be held electronically by videoconference before a hearing panel of the Central Regional Council (the “Hearing Panel”) of the Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada (the “MFDA”) on May 25, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. (Eastern), or as soon thereafter as the hearing can be held, to consider whether, pursuant to section 24.4 of By-law No. 1 of the MFDA, the Hearing Panel should accept the settlement agreement (the “Settlement Agreement”) entered into between Staff of the MFDA and Pieter Hendrik Leendert Lindhout (the “Respondent”).

The subject matter of the proposed Settlement Agreement concerns matters for which the Respondent may be disciplined as an Approved Person of the MFDA, pursuant to sections 20 and 24.1.1 of By-law No. 1 of the MFDA.

PARTICULARS

1. The proposed Settlement Agreement concerns allegations that:
   1. between April 2015 and November 2018, the Respondent photocopied signature pages from account forms that had been signed by clients and re-used the signature pages to complete 23 additional forms in respect of 14 clients, contrary to MFDA Rule 2.1.1;
   2. between October 2015 and November 2018, the Respondent altered and used to process transactions 17 account forms in respect of 6 clients by altering information on the account forms without having the client initial the alterations, contrary to MFDA Rule 2.1.1; and
   3. between April 2015 and November 2018, the Respondent obtained and possessed 6 pre-signed account forms in respect of 2 clients, contrary to MFDA Rule 2.1.1.
2. MFDA settlement hearings are typically held in the absence of the public pursuant to section 20.5 of MFDA By-law No. 1 and Rule 15.2(2) of the MFDA Rules of Procedure. If the Hearing Panel accepts the settlement agreement, then the proceeding will become open to the public and a copy of the decision of the Hearing Panel and the settlement agreement will be made available at mfda.ca.