Cassandra Brown
Global Guide 2024
Band 4 : Competition/Antitrust
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About
Provided by Cassandra Brown
Practice Areas
Cassandra Brown is a Partner in the Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group at Blakes. She advises on all aspects of competition law, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution practices, criminal and civil investigations, compliance, as well as foreign investment transactions under the Investment Canada Act. Her clients span a variety of industries, including energy, mining, technology, pharmaceutical, consumer products, agricultural, telecommunications, transportation, aviation, financial services, manufacturing, automotive and real estate. She has completed secondments to Coca-Cola Limited, a major international law firm based in London and the Blakes New York office.
Career
Cassandra was a sessional adjunct professor of competition regulation at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Publications
Cassandra is co-author of leading treatises including Competition Act: Commentary and Annotation; Competition and Antitrust Laws in Canada: Mergers, Joint Ventures and Competitor Collaborations, and The Foreign Investment Regulation Review (Canada Chapter), Third Edition. Cassandra is recognized as a leading lawyer in Chambers Canada: Canada's Leading Lawyers for Business 2021; Who’s Who Legal: Competition 2020 (Future Leaders – Partners) and The Legal 500 Canada 2020 (Next Generation Partner).
Chambers Review
Global
Cassandra Brown acts for sellers on the merger control aspects of divestments, as well as assisting with competition clearance filings for joint ventures.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She is a great adviser who is very clear about what can be done and what cannot, and she stays firm throughout the matter."
"I think she is really great. She is incredibly hard-working, knowledgeable, strategic and thoughtful."
"She is a great adviser who is very clear about what can be done and what cannot, and she stays firm throughout the matter."
"I think she is really great. She is incredibly hard-working, knowledgeable, strategic and thoughtful."
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