Order: In the Matter of Polo Digital Assets, Ltd.

IN THE MATTER OF
POLO DIGITAL ASSETS, LTD.

M. Cecilia Williams, Commissioner and Chair of the Panel

File No. 2021-17

April 25, 2022

ORDER

WHEREAS on April 25, 2022, the Ontario Securities Commission held a hearing by videoconference to consider a motion by Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP to be removed as counsel of record for the respondent, and a motion by Staff of the Commission for an order permitting Staff to serve and file an updated witness list on the respondent, and related relief;

ON READING the materials filed by the parties, and on hearing the submissions of the representative for Staff and for Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP, the respondent not appearing although properly served;

IT IS ORDERED THAT:  

1. pursuant to Rule 21(2) of the Commission’s Rules of Procedure and Forms, (2019) 42 OSCB 9714, Crawley MacKewn Brush LLP is removed as counsel of record for the respondent;
2. Staff is granted leave to, by no later than 4:30 p.m. on May 2, 2022: 
   1. file and serve on the respondent an updated witness list that replaces the Staff investigator identified previously on the witness list (R.S.) with a new Staff investigator (J.W.); and
   2. serve a summary of J.W.’s anticipated evidence on the respondent;
3. at the merits hearing in this proceeding, Staff may call J.W. as a witness instead of R.S.; and 
4. a further attendance in this proceeding is scheduled for May 3, 2022, at 11:30 a.m., by teleconference, or on such other date and time as may be agreed to by the parties and set by the Office of the Secretary.