I offer business and individual clients efficient and strategic advice in relation to competition/antitrust law, advertising, white-collar crime, Internet and new media law, as well as consulting and advisory services for mergers and Canadian foreign investment laws. I also offer competition and regulatory law compliance, education and policy services to companies, trade and professional associations and government agencies.
My experience includes counseling clients on the application of Canadian competition and regulatory laws and I have worked on hundreds of domestic and cross-border competition, advertising and marketing, promotional contest (sweepstakes), conspiracy (cartel), abuse of dominance, compliance, refusal to deal, pricing and distribution, Investment Canada Act and merger matters.
For more information about the services I offer please see: advertising law, associations, competition law, compliance, contests, education, investigations, litigation.
Industry Experience
My experience includes working on advertising, association, competition/antitrust, compliance, corporate/commercial, litigation and trade law matters in the following industries:
Agriculture, airlines, architectural woodworking, architects, associations, broadcasting, cat food, cement, computers, computer hardware, construction materials, copper mining, defence procurement, diamonds, digital media, direct marketing, dog food, energy, financial services, float plane airlines, floor plan finance, forestry, gaming, gem polishing, gold mining, grain elevators, hedge funds, insurance, labour unions, LCD monitors, manufacturing, media, mining, news wire services, online contests, online gaming, online search engine ranking, outfitting and hunting, pet food, pharmacies, port terminal grain handling facilities, potash, printing, rail, real estate, real estate self-storage, real estate boards, real estate services, residential home construction, retail, retail books, roofing shingles, satellite communications, silver mining, social media, software, stock exchange services, telecommunications, telemarketing, theatre exhibition and film distribution, tires, tourism, trade associations, trailer leasing, transportation, upstream oil and gas, and vitamins.
Recent Representative Matters
Recent representative matters include acting on domestic and cross-border cartel cases (price-fixing investigations) and competition law related private actions, competition compliance and educational services for trade and professional associations, advertising and marketing law advice for Canadian and international companies (including several of the world’s largest consumer products companies), advertising advice for a European government and legal and strategic advice in relation to the BHP/Potash, TMX/Maple and Viterra/Glencore mergers for U.S. and European hedge funds.
I commonly work with litigation and other specialist counsel, researchers and other experts to provide efficient, attentive and strategic advice to my clients.
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BOOKS
The Competition Law Guide for Trade Associations in Canada is a practical and concise summary of Canadian competition law for trade, professional and other associations and their advisors
COURSES
Competition Law and REALTORS®: What You Say and Do Matters was designed by ACRE with the assistance of CREA to help Canadian REALTORS® understand and comply with Canadian competition law
For more see: ACRE