Randall J Hofley

Practice Areas

Randall Hofley is a senior partner in the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment and Litigation groups. He is a trusted advisor on competition law and the federal regulation of business, with a focus on contentious matters before the Canadian Competition Bureau, the Competition Tribunal, and all levels of Canadian courts and federal administrative tribunals.

Brings both private-sector and public-sector experience, most recently serving as General Counsel and Senior Enforcement Advisor, Competition Bureau Legal Services.

Litigated high-profile Competition Act cases, including the first abuse of dominance case to reach the Supreme Court of Canada, the only Federal Court of Appeal decision to address patents under the Act, the only (civil) price maintenance case, the first case considering the Act’s competitor collaboration provisions, the only appellate level case on the application of the Act’s cartel provisions to agreements between purchasers of products, the only Competition Tribunal case to address the Regulated Conduct Doctrine, and many cases developing standards for cartel prosecutions and class-action certification/defences in the cartel context.

Professional Memberships

Former Chair, CBA's International Law Section and National Competition Law Section's Criminal Matters Committee; adjunct professor of Government Control of Business at McGill University; currently vice-president and treasurer of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies.