Competition/Antitrust
Global Guide 2024 : Canada
Band 4
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+1 416 366 8381About
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 the 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 Gold Fields on the antitrust and FDI filings for its multi-jurisdictional acquisition of Yamana Gold.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The firm has very strong antitrust transactional experience and knowledge."
"The Fasken team brings both law and economics to client matters at a quite high level."
"We received pragmatic and proactive representation."
"The team is very good at strategy and solving complex issues."
"The firm has very strong antitrust transactional experience and knowledge."
"The Fasken team brings both law and economics to client matters at a quite high level."
"We received pragmatic and proactive representation."
"The team is very good at strategy and solving complex issues."
Notable Practitioners
Antonio Di Domenico defends clients in class action proceedings concerning allegations of price fixing and anti-competitive behaviour in the real estate and technology sectors.
"He is extremely capable and very easy to work with."
"Tony is very pleasant to work with and always full of energy while delivering practical legal work product."
"He is extremely responsive, proactive and pragmatic."
"He provides us with both sophisticated and practical advice and keeps us up to speed on new developments."
Huy Do is a popular choice with clients from the mining and natural resources sector for advice on merger clearance filings. He also has a number of clients from the pharmaceutical and FMCG industries.
"Huy is a very smart and high-quality lawyer who is always quite pleasant to work with. He's also practical in his thinking and makes every effort to fully analyse legal issues at all times."
"He is technically strong and provides practical and strategic advice."
Chris Margison assists clients with the Competition Act filings of proposed transactions and advises on possible legislative changes.