Competition/Antitrust
Global Guide 2024 : Canada
Band 1
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Provided by McCarthy Tétrault LLP
With our ability to integrate exceptional expertise in both of Canada’s legal systems (civil and common law) and both of Canada’s official languages (English and French) to address any client issue, our national Competition/Antitrust and Foreign Investment Group is entrusted to advise on some of Canada’s most significant and industry-changing competition and foreign investment matters.
Our group is known for both our transactional expertise and our expertise in criminal and civil investigations and competition litigation.
Our team, which includes some of Canada’s best practitioners in the field (two of whom have chaired the Canadian Bar Association’s National Competition Law Section, represents clients on the full range of competition and foreign investment issues, including:
- criminal and non-criminal provisions in Canada’s Competition Act
- criminal investigations and proceedings in a number of industries
- immunity and leniency applications in international and domestic cartels
- private and public M&A transactions (including large and complex domestic and international transactions); structuring transactions
- civil proceedings before the courts and the Competition Tribunal (Canada’s adjudicative body that oversees much of the enforcement of Canada’s Competition Act)
- civil damage claims (class actions)
- compliance matters and programs
- Investment Canada Act: foreign investment and national security
Chambers Review
With a notable presence in both Toronto and Montréal, McCarthy Tétrault operates a dynamic and well-established competition law practice group, featuring considerable experience of investigations, transactions and disputes, as well as foreign investment. The team acts for technology sector clients and private equity houses on Competition Act and Investment Canada Act aspects of transactions. The group has an impressive track record handling prominent, blue-chip, cross-border merger clearance filings. On the contentious side, team members offer notable experience defending clients accused of being involved in cartels in class actions.
Work Highlights
- McCarthy Tétrault acted as Canadian competition and foreign investment review counsel to Discovery in its USD87 billion acquisition of Warner Media.
Strengths
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"The firm's strength in depth is top-notch."
"The breadth of experience of the firm has been an asset."
"The team is the best in its field of expertise."
"The team is very responsive."
"The firm's strength in depth is top-notch."
"The breadth of experience of the firm has been an asset."
"The team is the best in its field of expertise."
"The team is very responsive."
Notable Practitioners
Oliver Borgers has cultivated a solid reputation in the Canadian competition market, with significant experience assisting clients with obtaining competition law clearance for multibillion-dollar transactions.
Jason Gudofsky is highly regarded for his impressive experience advising technology sector clients on the merger clearance aspects of high-value, multi-jurisdictional corporate transactions. He also offers expertise in matters concerning foreign direct investment.
"He is a really strategic lawyer who thinks outside the box."
"He is the best competition lawyer in Canada."
"I go to Jason Gudofsky because he is super-responsive, quick, efficient and really business-friendly."
"He has a high degree of technical expertise in relation to the regulatory matters for which he was engaged."
Nikiforos Iatrou frequently represents high-profile e-commerce clients in competition law class actions, with a notable focus on allegations of price fixing or price misrepresentation.
"He certainly has done a lot of quality work in the last while."
Casey Halladay represents clients before the Competition Bureau in the review of high-value acquisitions, as well as in investigations into possible abuses of dominance.
"He is extremely responsive, has a very practical approach to dealing with matters and figuring out if things are important or not, and is really terrific with clients."
Deborah Salzberger advises private equity houses and other investors on the competition and foreign direct investment aspects of high-value corporate transactions.
Montréal-based Dominic Thérien is a respected competition law expert with expertise in major merger review and foreign investment files.
"I think highly of him."
"Dominic is excellent."
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