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• Acting for LG Chem America, Inc. in connection with a Quebec class action based on an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice into alleged anti-competitive behaviour in the market for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.

  2013

• Acting for Whirlpool in defence of class actions commenced in Canada alleging price-fixing in respect of the sales of compressors.

  2013

• Acting for the Commissioner of Competition, the head of the Canadian Competition Bureau, in a challenge alleging that the merchant rules applied by Visa and MasterCard are anti-competitive. In addition to being the most significant proceeding before the Competition Tribunal in recent years, the challenge against Visa and MasterCard is also the first case under the newly enacted civil price maintenance provision of the Competition Act.

  2013

• Acted for Mars Canada and Mars, Incorporated in Canadian and international class action proceedings and in a Competition Bureau investigation involving allegations of price fixing and Competition Act violations.

  2013

• Acting for Beijing Matsushita Color CRT Company, Ltd. in defence of class actions commenced in Canada alleging price-fixing in respect of the sales of cathode ray tubes.

  2012

• Acted for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in its intervention before the Supreme Court of Canada in the Sun-Rype v Archer Daniels Midland class action appeal, the leading Canadian case regarding competition class actions. The Supreme Court's decision on these appeals could potentially bar all indirect purchaser class actions in Canada and may also significantly raise the evidentiary standard for certification. This decision will be the most important development in the evolution of competition class actions in Canada.

  2012

• Acting for a Québec-based gas retailer in connection with criminal charges laid by the Competition Bureau for alleged price-fixing and related class actions.

  2012

• Acted for Rogers Cable Communications Inc. in its defence of a proposed class action on behalf of Home Phone customers alleging that representations to consumers about how long distance charges were levied were misleading.

  2012

• Acted successfully for the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) with respect to Loveless v. Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation in a decision denying class certification to a proposed class of individuals who bought lottery tickets from OLG between the years 1975 to 2009.

  2011

• Acting for Sanofi Pasteur Canada in proceedings before the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board and the Federal Court concerning allegations of excessive pricing with respect to the vaccines Quadracel and Pentacel.

  2011

• Acting for Rogers Communications Inc. in connection with multi-billion dollar class action proceedings to recover "system access fees" charged to consumers by Canadian wireless service providers in the period since 1987. This is one of the largest class actions in Canadian history, and has given rise to numerous trial level and appellate proceedings in various provinces of Canada including, Saskatchewan, Québec and British Columbia.

  2010

• Acting for Chi Mei Optoelectronics in its defence of multiple class actions commenced across Canada alleging price fixing in respect of the sales of LCD panels, including with respect to cross-border issues arising out of parallel U.S. class actions.

  2009

• Acted for Kemira Chemicals Canada Inc. in its defence of multiple class actions across Canada alleging a price fixing conspiracy in respect of hydrogen peroxide.

  2009

• Acted for BASF Corporation in its defence of a class action alleging a price fixing conspiracy and Competition Act violations in respect of the Canadian market for polymethyl methacrylate, a chemical compound used in the manufacture of acrylic glass sold as Plexiglass, Perspex, Acrylite, Acrylpast and Lucite.

  2009

• Acted for Rogers Wireless Inc., Fido Solutions Inc. and other Rogers and Fido companies in their defence of a proposed national class action in respect of the 911 fee charged by wireless service providers.

  2008

• Acting for Japan Airlines International Co., Ltd. in its defence of class actions across Canada alleging price fixing in respect of, among other things, fees for passenger airfares.

  2007

• Acted for Rogers Wireless Inc. in its successful defence of an injunction proceeding brought by Telus Corporation concerning claims of misleading advertising.

  2007