Norton Rose Fulbright's team takes care of the range of Canadian competition law mandates, namely cartels, merger review and criminal and civil antitrust litigation. The group is also well-versed in high-profile Bureau cartel investigations and ensuring compliance with the Investment Canada Act. Toronto-based practice head Chris Hersh specializes in M&A review, abuse of dominance cases and pricing and distribution issues. Montreal-based Eric Lefebvre and Calgary-based Rujuta Patel are additional key contacts for competition litigation and foreign investment review matters, respectively.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
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Testimonials
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- 'Very well versed in the antitrust and class action areas.'
Key clients
- Food Health and Consumer Products Canada
- Metro
- Bausch Health
- Century 21 Canada
- The Canadian Hockey League, Québec Major Junior Hockey League, Ontario Hockey League and the Western Hockey League
- Crescent Point Energy
- Bonavista Energy
- Recochem
- H2O Innovation
- OpSens
Work highlights
- Assisted food and pharmacy retailer Metro with an antitrust investigation by the Competition Bureau regarding bread cartel practices.
- Represented Bausch Health and its affiliates in a proposed Federal Court class action alleging an industry-wide conspiracy amongst drug manufacturers to allocate markets and fix the price of generic drugs in Canada.
- Advised Food Health and Consumer Products Canada on the possible creation of a Canadian grocery sector code of conduct similar to the UK's GSCOP.
Lawyers
Practice head
Chris Hersh
Other key lawyers
Eric Lefebvre; Rujuta Patel