Competition/Antitrust
Canada Guide 2025 : Nationwide - Canada
Band 4
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Provided by Fasken
Your business focus is on growth, development and sustainability—key strategies you intend to implement will impact your customers, suppliers or competitors—and may result in enhanced scrutiny by competition authorities. To promptly and appropriately navigate and address these challenges the Competition, Marketing & Foreign Investment (CMFI) team at Fasken stands ready to help you get the best outcome, through timely and practical advice.
Leading companies around the world look to us for competition law advice on their daily operations and their most significant commercial transactions. Our lawyers have vast experience in all aspects of competition, marketing and foreign investment law. We are regularly retained to advise on and represent multinational corporations (MNCs) in the Canadian and South African aspects of global mergers and acquisitions. We also defend clients in domestic and cross-border competition investigations and prosecutions, as well as private actions, including class actions. Our clients operate in various sectors, including information technology, telecommunications, transportation, pharmaceutical, financial services, agricultural, food, consumer electronics, automotive, mining, energy, manufacturing and retail.
Chambers Review
Fasken acts for a broad client base on competition law issues, assisting clients from the real estate, technology, pharmaceutical and mining industries with both contentious and non-contentious matters. The law firm offers expertise in class actions concerning allegations of involvement in cartels, as well as litigation around anti-competitive behaviour such as misleading representations to the public, including greenwashing. The team also frequently advises on Competition Act filings for corporate transactions. The firm is able to collaborate with its other offices, particularly on matters of South African competition law.
Work Highlights
- Fasken advised Cisco on obtaining Canadian merger clearance for its acquisition of Accedian.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team have provided timely, thorough advice and possess exceptional expertise."
"Fasken addresses complex questions and provides practical approaches to mitigate risks."
"Fasken's advice is very practical and provides good insight into the Competition Bureau's practices."
"The team understands the commercial reality and is able to distinguish well between business and legal risks."
"The team have provided timely, thorough advice and possess exceptional expertise."
"Fasken addresses complex questions and provides practical approaches to mitigate risks."
"Fasken's advice is very practical and provides good insight into the Competition Bureau's practices."
"The team understands the commercial reality and is able to distinguish well between business and legal risks."
Notable Practitioners
Antonio Di Domenico defends clients in class action proceedings concerning allegations of price fixing and anti-competitive behaviour in the pharmaceutical and technology sectors.
"Antonio Di Domenico is very impressive and knowledgeable in complex antitrust issues."
"He has great awareness and insight into the Competition Bureau's practices. His advice is very practical and he makes himself available at short notice."
"Antonio Di Domenico consistently provides us with very strong and pragmatic competition law advice. He is responsive and very client-oriented."
"He is very practical in approach and very understanding of how to deliver advice in a manner that's applicable to business work."
Huy Do is a popular choice with clients from the energy and technology sectors for advice on merger clearance filings. He also has a number of clients from the pharmaceutical and FMCG industries.
"Huy Do is knowledgeable and good at providing practical advice. I also found him very responsive."