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Our Practice
The Competition & Foreign Investment Review practice is widely recognized as one of the leading practices in the Canadian marketplace, with 20 lawyers, including five litigators, several of whom are fluently bilingual. Our lawyers advise a wide range of international and domestic clients on the full spectrum of competition and foreign investment review matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other forms of competitor collaborations as well as competition aspects of strategic commercial activities, including trade practices, pricing policies, marketing, distribution and relationships with customers and competitors. We also represent clients in civil and criminal, as well as class action matters, in various Canadian courts and before the Competition Tribunal, including dealing with the defence of cartel, abuse of dominance and other Competition Bureau investigations. Our practice is also a recognized leader in advising foreign-based and Canadian clients on the application of the Investment Canada Act ("ICA") as well as the application of various other laws that restrict foreign ownership in specific industries. We have extensive experience in all aspects of foreign investment review, both before the Investment Review Division ("IRD") of Industry Canada and, for transactions involving cultural matters, the Department of Canadian Heritage, as well as the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. We have represented clients in some of the largest and most complex foreign investment and foreign ownership reviews undertaken in Canada. Most recently, our lawyers have advised clients on the scope and applicability of the latest amendments to the ICA, which have created a "national security" review process that may be applicable to certain acquisitions of Canadian businesses by non-Canadians. In addition to securing approvals under the ICA, our lawyers have also assisted clients in less visible ways, notably in establishing to the satisfaction of the IRD that the ICA did not apply to a transaction and in making representations with respect to foreign acquisitions. We have acted on some of the most high-profile and complex competition cases including, for example, obtaining clearance in a number of significant domestic and international transactions in a variety of industries, including mining, information technology, financial services and consumer goods, the only contested abuse of dominance case to be decided by the Competition Tribunal since 2000, and the most significant domestic cartel investigations in Canada in recent years and their subsequent resolution. Our Clients We are frequently retained by and work with:
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