Competition/Antitrust
Global Guide 2024 : Canada
Band 3
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Provided by Torys LLP
Competition and Foreign Investment Review
Torys is recognized nationally and internationally for its leading Canadian competition and foreign investment review practice. Our strength in this area comes from the depth and experience of our team and the creative and business-minded approach we bring to complex matters.
Our team is distinguished by our integrated practice approach and ability to bring to bear cutting-edge advisory and adversarial skills. We specialize in complex Canadian and international merger transactions; cartel investigations and class actions; and abuse of dominance investigations. Our involvement in ground-breaking matters provides our lawyers with unparalleled expertise and perspective to handle the challenges of a complex regulatory enforcement environment.
Competition Litigation
Torys has one of Canada's leading competition litigation practices, with litigators who appear frequently before courts of all levels, including provincial courts, the Supreme Court of Canada and the Competition Tribunal.
Torys represents national and international companies, individual defendants and trade associations in connection with criminal antitrust investigations and prosecutions. We have successfully represented defendants against charges of anticompetitive conduct at trial.
Chambers Review
Torys' competition department leverages the market-leading strength of the firm's Toronto and Calgary-based corporate group to advise on major merger clearance issues, particularly in the energy and financial services sectors. The firm also has experience in behavioural matters, defending clients in class action disputes around possible cartels, as well as representing them before the Competition Bureau in sector inquiries. The team also assists clients with competition compliance issues around pricing strategies.
Work Highlights
- Torys advised Cenovus Energy on the Competition Act aspects of the divestment of its retail fuel network to Parkland Corp and Federated Co-operatives.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The advice is commercially minded and risk-based."
"The lawyers are very client-focused."
"The Torys team excels at boiling down complex issues to their essence and coming up with pragmatic solutions."
"Torys has always been a pleasure to work with and provides sound advice in complex situations."
"Torys continues to be very responsive, going above and beyond to meet our needs."
"The advice is commercially minded and risk-based."
"The lawyers are very client-focused."
"The Torys team excels at boiling down complex issues to their essence and coming up with pragmatic solutions."
"Torys has always been a pleasure to work with and provides sound advice in complex situations."
"Torys continues to be very responsive, going above and beyond to meet our needs."
Notable Practitioners
Linda Plumpton is an outstanding antitrust litigator who represents clients in class action proceedings arising from potential breaches of the Competition Act, with notable experience in price-fixing mandates.
"Linda is the first person I contact when I have a complex antitrust matter."
Omar Wakil is highly regarded on the Canadian market for assisting clients with obtaining competition law clearance for a range of high-value corporate transactions. He is particularly popular with clients from the energy and financial services sectors.
"He is sophisticated in his analysis and pragmatic in finding workable solutions."
"Omar works quickly and is highly efficient and constantly produces excellent work and advice."
"He was sophisticated and polished and provided sound advice. With his knowledge of going through processes before, he spent a lot of time understanding what our client needs were and making sure these were represented."
"Omar is an excellent adviser with a deep knowledge of the law, great experience and the ability to give clear and concise practical advice with a focus on reaching our commercial goals."
"I have found Omar to be very insightful of industry issues and topics related to his field."
Dany Assaf assists clients with merger clearance filings for proposed joint ventures and other transactions. In addition, he advises on the competition aspects of collaboration agreements and pricing strategies, as well as representing clients in market studies.
"He is very client-centric and commercially minded."
"He has a good sense of business acumen, so understands our business and the application of the rules to our business, and he gives risk-adjusted advice."
"Dany is an absolute pleasure to work with and his skill set combined with pragmatism is very much appreciated by us."