Competition Law of Canada

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ISBN-13: 978-1-57823-096-9 / ISBN-10: 1-57823-096-9

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About the Book:
Written by leading members of the Competition Practice Groups of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP and Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP, Competition Law of Canada is the definitive work on the subject and is recognized by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as most frequently cited as the leading loose leaf service on Canadian competition law.

Organized in a logical, easily accessible format, this work provides comprehensive analysis, historical perspective and practical examination of Canadian competition law. All the major areas of competition law are examined in individual detailed chapters, including:

• Mergers and Notifiable Transactions
• Abuse of Dominance
• Conspiracy and Agreements in Restraint of Trade
• Pricing Practices
• Distribution Practices
• Unfair Sales Practices
• Regulated Conduct
• Intellectual Property and Competition Law
• International Aspects of Competition Law

As well as being updated annually, this service includes as Appendices (on CD ROM) important competition related legislation, regulations, guidelines, treaties, speeches, cases and decisions (many unreported) and advisory opinions.

About the Editors-in-Chief:
Calvin S. Goldman, Q.C., is a Partner with Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP in Toronto and Chair of Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group. Mr. Goldman began his professional career at Blakes in 1976 where he remained with the firm specializing in antitrust litigation until 1986 when he was appointed Director (since renamed "Commissioner") of the Competition Bureau in the Canadian Government. As such, he was the first head of the Competition Bureau under the new Competition Act.

Mr. Goldman returned to private practice in 1990. His practice covers all aspects of competition law and trade practices. This includes strategic advice and representation before the Competition Bureau in relation to mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, abuse of dominance and other reviewable trade practice matters. It also includes advice and representation in relation to the range of criminal matters under the Competition Act. A substantial portion of his practice involves trans-border mergers and criminal cases.

In recent years, Mr. Goldman's practice also has included an increasing number of cases pertaining to competition issues in information technology industries. He is Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce's Task Force on Competition and International Trade; Vice-Chair of the Competition Committee of the Business & Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD, and former Chair of the Competition Policy Committee, Canadian Council for International Business.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Goldman has been appointed to a number of positions. In addition to having been the Director of the Competition Bureau, Mr. Goldman was the Vice-chair of the Competition Law and Policy Committee of the OECD (1987-1989), Past-chair (2004-2007) of the International Task Force of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law and Consultant to the Canadian Competition Bureau on Merger Review Process (2008).

John D. Bodrug is a Partner with Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Toronto in the Competition and Foreign Investment Review Group. In practice for over 20 years, he has extensive experience in all aspects of competition law, including mergers, price fixing investigations (such as the thermal fax paper inquiry) and other pricing, distribution and advertising matters.

Mr. Bodrug has represented and advised Canadian and U.S.-based corporations across a range of industries, including energy and resources, transportation, agriculture, manufacturing, financial services, retailing and consumer products sectors. John has obtained Competition Act and Investment Canada Act clearances for numerous merger transactions. For example, he represented United Grain Growers with respect to the regulatory aspects of its acquisition of Agricore Cooperative Limited to form the largest grain handling company in western Canada, including two separate Competition Tribunal proceedings to resolve issues raised by the Competition Bureau in certain markets. He also regularly represents companies that are the subject of inquiries under the criminal provisions of the Competition Act, including both in the context of contested matters, resolutions short of proceedings, and immunity or leniency agreements. He has also acted as a special counsel for the Director of the Competition Bureau in the Competition Tribunal proceedings relating to the Interac shared electronic financial services network under the Competition Act.

He was ranked among the world’s top 45 competition lawyers under the age of 45 in a worldwide survey by the Global Competition Review. He is recognized annually as a repeatedly recommended competition law practitioner in the Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory, is included in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers, in Law Business Research's The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers as a foremost competition legal practitioner, in PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook and PLC Cross-border Competition and Leniency Handbook. He is cited annually in Chambers Global’s The World's Leading Lawyers, and IFLR 1000's Guide to the World's Leading Business Law Firms as a leading individual in Canadian Competition/Antitrust law.

He has written numerous articles in the field of competition and trade practice law, including articles on the Canadian merger enforcement process in the ABA's Antitrust Law Journal and Antitrust magazine, and has been a speaker at ABA, CBA and other conferences.

He is the Chair of the National Competition Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association. He is also a non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network, an organization of international competition authorities devoted to improving worldwide cooperation and convergence. John has lectured on competition law at the University of Western Ontario Law School, where he obtained his LL.B. in 1985.

About the Editors:
Christopher Margison is a Partner with Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Toronto in the competition and foreign investment review group. He has represented and advised clients on many aspects of competition law, including mergers, price fixing, strategic alliances, distribution and pricing practices, and misleadingadvertising matters.

Mr. Margison has experience in a wide variety of industries, including the entertainment, telecommunications, information technology, agricultural, manufacturing, plastics and consumer products sectors. In the last few years, he has acted in connection with a number of significant mergers and acquisitions. For example, he acted for Agricore United with respect to Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Inc.'s acquisition of Agricore United, which resulted in the formation of Western Canada's largest grain handling and merchandising company. Similarly, he acted for Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund with respect to its acquisition of the Famous Players movie exhibition business from Viacom Inc.

He has co-authored several articles on competition laws, including articles published in Antitrust Magazine and Canadian Competition Record. In addition, he is the contributing author for the competition law section of Legal Alert and the Canadian Developments section of Sherman Act Section 1 Newsletter.

He graduated at the top of the English Common Law Program at the University of Ottawa in 1998. While at law school, he spent two summers at the Competition Bureau, working in what is now known as the Fair Business Practices Branch. Prior to attending law school, He graduated from the Business Administration Program at the University College of the Fraser Valley. He became a partner in 2003.

Navin has been involved in many complicated and high profile merger transactions, including: Bell Canada Enterprises Inc./Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board, Labatt Brewing Company/Lakeport, XM Satellite Radio/Sirius Satellite Radio, Whirlpool/Maytag, GlaxoSmithKline/ID Biomedical Corp., TUI AG/CP Ships Limited, GE/Instrumentarium, West Fraser/Weldwood, Great-West Life/Canada Life.

Navin has authored numerous articles in the fields of competition law and regulatory compliance. In particular, Navin has written several articles concerning the intersection of competition law and intellectual property, including a paper commissioned by the Competition Bureau entitled “The Interface Between Competition Law And Intellectual Property Law: Present Concerns And Future Challenges Facing Industry Canada”. He teaches at the graduate level at the Osgoode Hall Law School and has been retained on a number of occasions by the Canadian Competition bureau to provide advice on the Canadian competition law regime.

Navin has expertise in representing foreign-based businesses seeking to invest in Canada. He has secured regulatory approval under the Investment Canada Act for several high-profile transactions, and comments frequently on legal and policy developments in the area of foreign investment in Canada. He also has experience in the area of foreign investment (Exon-Florio) reviews from his time practicing law in Washington, D.C. He also advised a range of business, governmental and non-governmental entities on international trade and business regulation issues including: domestic and international trade litigation with respect to the North American Free Trade Agreement and the World Trade Organization; foreign market access; export controls; anticorruption laws and other business compliance measures.

About the Editorial Board:
The editorial board includes leading members of the competiton practice groups of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP and Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP.

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