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Jason Gudofsky
Work Department
Competition/Antitrust
Position
Jason is the Chair of McCarthy Tétrault’s Competition/Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group. He has over 25 years of experience advising on all aspects of competition law, including mergers, joint ventures and alliances, and both civil and criminal investigations. Significant recent mandates include: Parkland/Husky, Parkland/Pétroles Crevier, Discovery/WarnerMedia, Hitachi Rail/Thales Ground Transportation Systems, NCR/Cardtronics, AstraZeneca/Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Aon/Willis Towers Watson AbbVie/Allergan, Harris Corporation/L3 Technologies, and Walt Disney/21st Century Fox. Jason also advises on foreign investment/national security reviews under the Investment Canada Act, including the following significant transactions: Cineworld/Cineplex, Zijin Mining/Continental Gold, CCCI/Aecon and CNOOC/Nexen. Jason is regularly relied upon to provide risk assessments, internal audits and navigate sensitive matters through the relevant Canadian governmental authorities. Jason previously worked for three years at a leading international law firm in Brussels.
Memberships
Past Chair and Vice-Chair of CBA committees, and active member of the ABA.
Education
BA, LLB, MES and Postgraduate Diploma in EC Competition Law
Personal
Authored numerous articles and regularly speaks at major international conferences. Global Competition Review editorial board and Co-Chair, Annual GCR Antitrust Law Leaders Forum
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Competition and antitrust
(Hall of Fame)McCarthy Tétrault‘s ‘extremely experienced and knowledgeable’ team is well-placed to handle a range of advisory and contentious competition law matters, namely merger, joint venture and foreign investment clearance, Competition Bureau investigations and litigation. Practice head Jason Gudofsky
specializes in advising clients on the competition law aspects of mergers, strategic alliances, joint ventures and other commercial transactions, as well as dealing with cartel investigations and compliance matters. Additional key contacts include merger control specialists Oliver Borgers and Debbie Salzberger; litigator Nikiforos Iatrou; and Casey Halladay, who focuses on cartels and contentious matters. Montreal-based Dominic Thérien majors on merger review and criminal cartel and bid-rigging investigations. All named lawyers are based at the Toronto office unless otherwise stated. Since publication, Kate McNeece has departed the firm.
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