Elisa K Kearney

Practice Areas

Elisa advises leading technology and media companies, retailers and industrial food and consumer product manufacturers on Canadian law and policy relating to mergers and business ventures, marketing and branding, pricing and distribution, e-commerce and consumer protection. Elisa is a thought leader on issues of law and policy relating to competition policy and innovation, including the digital economy. She also counsels clients on foreign ownership and control restrictions in regulated sectors. Elisa regularly appears before the Competition Bureau and has acted as external counsel to the Commissioner of Competition and the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. She is immediate past chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s Competition Law and Foreign Investment Review Executive Committee and chair of the Competition Policy Council for the C.D. Howe Institute. Select recognition: The Legal 500 Canada; GCR 100 Canada; GCR’s 40 Under 40 (2016); The Best Lawyers in Canada; Who’s Who Legal: Competition.