Competition Bureau Outlines International Merger Priorities And Tribunal Clarifies Third-Party Challenge Rights

SPEECH OUTLINES BUREAU PRIORITIES

On September 10, 2014, Senior Deputy Commissioner of Competition, Mergers, Lisa Campbell outlined the Competition Bureau's (Bureau) international priorities and announced new initiatives during a speech at the Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.

• Collaboration with U.S. Agencies: Earlier this year, the Competition Bureau and the U.S. antitrust agencies issued a set of "Best Practices" for cooperation between them in merger investigations. Senior Deputy Commissioner Campbell's speech emphasized the enforcement successes that this cooperation has delivered already, including coordinated efforts to review a merger that the parties ultimately abandoned following concerns raised by both the Bureau and the U.S. Department of Justice.