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Violations of Canada’s Competition Act can lead to failed transactions fines in the millions of dollars, class action lawsuits, or lengthy and costly litigation.
Clearly, domestic and international businesses operating in Canada need to be vigilant about respecting the civil and criminal provisions of the Act.
McCarthy Tétrault has one of the leading competition and antitrust practices in Canada. We help you cut through the complex maze of issues to avoid problems and minimize risks, and if necessary, defend your interests with vigour.
Our services flow into two main streams:
- Advice – We advise you on private as well as public mergers & acquisitions, structuring deals, business practices and day-to-day compliance matters. We help you understand the criminal and non-criminal provisions in the Act, and develop a compliance program.
- Litigation – Our competition litigators are among the most reputed in the country. We represent you in civil or criminal proceedings before the Competition Tribunal (the adjudicative body that oversees much of the enforcement of the statute) or the courts.
Clients in every sector place us among the top law firms in this area because:
- We invest in knowing your business through and through: your company, products and services, business practices, competitors, geographic and product markets, international trading constraints, tariff or non-tariff protection and free trade issues.
- We’ve specialized in this area for many years and witnessed the significant changes brought to Canadian competition law, especially in the 1980s.
- We regularly work on large national and international mergers & acquisitions, as well as on major cartel investigations.
- We have some of the world’s best practitioners in this field. Two have chaired the National Competition Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association. Our national strength in this field puts us near the top of all ranking tables.
- We integrate exceptional expertise across the firm in all areas of law and in Canada’s two legal systems, civil and common law, to address any client issue.
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For more information, please contact:
CALGARYRick W. Pawluk403-206-5522 rpawluk@mccarthy.ca → View profile MONTRÉALMadeleine Renaud, Ad. E.514-397-4252 mrenaud@mccarthy.ca → View profile | TORONTOOliver J. Borgers416-601-7654 oborgers@mccarthy.ca → View profile Donald B. Houston 416-601-7506 dhouston@mccarthy.ca → View profile |
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