Canadian Merger Reforms Bring Longer Review Times, Greater Scrutiny, Analysis of Competition Bureau Data Says
August 12, 2026
Anita Banicevic interviewed in Law360
Anita Banicevic recently spoke to Law360 about how the 2024 Amendments to the Competition Act have impacted merger review timelines and outcomes. Her analysis draws on data from the Bureau’s public merger review tracker and its 2025–2026 performance measurement and statistics report. Some of the points she discusses include longer review times, transactions increasingly being treated as “complex” and a recent trend of parties opting to pull and refile for certain transactions.
Read the article on Law360’s website.