Mr Emrys Davis > Bennett Jones LLP > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile

Bennett Jones LLP
3400 ONE FIRST CANADIAN PLACE
PO BOX 130
TORONTO, ONTARIO
Canada

Work Department

Litigation / Class Actions / Competition

Position

Partner

Career

Emrys is a litigator focusing on complex competition/antitrust issues and class actions. He helps clients comply with Canada’s competition laws and fights for them when they are alleged to have broken them. He regularly represents clients litigating mergers, responding to criminal and civil investigations, and defending alleged anti-competitive conduct. He acted as trial counsel to the Commissioner of Competition in his successful abuse of dominance application against the Toronto Real Estate Board in 2015 and represented Panasonic Corporation before the Supreme Court of Canada in December 2018. Emrys was the 2018/2019 Chair of the Competition Litigation Committee of the Canadian Bar Association’s Competition Law Section and writes frequently on competition/antitrust issues and class actions.

Memberships

Advocates Society, Canadian Bar Association, Ontario Bar Association, American Bar Association

Education

York University, BES (Hons.), 2005, summa cum laude. 
University of Toronto, JD, 2008
Admitted to the Ontario bar, 2009.

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Competition and antitrust

(Next Generation Partners)

Emrys DavisBennett Jones LLP

The practice at Bennett Jones LLP demonstrates skill in both merger review and competition litigation. The group is co-directed by Washington, D.C.-based former Commissioner of Competition Melanie Aitken, who specializes in litigation, and global antitrust and competition law. Alongside her, noted litigator Randal Hughes co-leads from Toronto. Additional key partner-level names to note include Adam Kalbfleisch, who is experienced in foreign investment review and regulatory matters; and litigator Emrys Davis, who has focused his practice on criminal and civil investigations, in addition to class action defence.