We are a Toronto based competition, advertising and regulatory law firm that offers business, association, agency and government clients efficient and strategic advice in relation to competition/antitrust, advertising/marketing, anti-spam law (CASL), contest and Internet and new media laws. We also offer competition, advertising and regulatory law compliance, education and policy services.
Our experience includes advising clients in Toronto, Canada and the United States on the application of Canadian competition, advertising and regulatory laws. Over the past 20 years, we have worked on hundreds of domestic and cross-border competition, advertising/marketing, CASL, contest/sweepstakes, conspiracy/cartel, abuse of dominance, compliance, refusal to deal and pricing and distribution matters.
Some of the specific types of legal advice that we provide include: written opinions, Canadian Competition Bureau and regulatory complaints, Competition Bureau immunity and leniency applications, applying for Competition Bureau written advisory opinions, competition law compliance programs, advertising and CASL compliance programs, responding to Competition Bureau and regulatory information requests and investigations, strategy in relation to advocacy in the competition, advertising and regulatory law areas and drafting rules, forms and related agreements for Canadian contests and promotions.
For more information about our Canadian competition and advertising law services, see: Advertising Law, Associations, Competition Law, Compliance, Contests, Education, Investigations and CASL (Canadian Anti-Spam Law).
Who Are Our Clients?
We practice federal Canadian law and Ontario law. As such, we frequently act for companies, associations, not-for-profit organizations, governments, advertising agencies and communications firms and individuals in Toronto and across Canada and the United States. Over the past 20 years we have provided competition/antitrust, advertising/marketing, contest/sweepstakes, CASL and regulatory law advice to clients in many sectors in Canada, the United States and Europe.
Industry Experience
Industry sectors in which we have worked in the competition and advertising law areas include:
Accounting associations, advertising agencies, agriculture, agricultural manufacturers, airlines, airports, architectural woodworking, architects, associations, automobile dealers, automobile repair, biscuits, broadcasting, car dealerships, cat food, cement, charities, chicken farmers, children’s playgrounds, chiropractors, clothing, clothing manufacturers, computers, computer hardware, consulting, construction associations, construction materials, copper mining, defence procurement, destination marketing, diamonds, digital media, direct marketing, dog food, energy, financial services, float plane airlines, floor plan finance, food, forestry, gaming, gem polishing, gold mining, golf retailers, grain elevators, hedge funds, hotels, insurance, labour unions, LCD monitors, manufacturing, media, mining, news wire services, online contests, online gaming, online search engine ranking, outfitting and hunting expeditions, oil change services, paper, pencils, pet food, pharmacies, plastics, plastic manufacturers, port terminal grain handling facilities, potash, printing, pulp and paper, rail, real estate, real estate self-storage, real estate associations, real estate boards, real estate services, real estate brokerages, recycling, residential high-rise construction, residential home construction, retail, retail books, retail clothing, roofing shingles, satellite communications, silver mining, social media, software, sports broadcasting, stock exchange services, telecommunications, telemarketing, theatre exhibition and film distribution, time shares, tires, tourism, trade associations, trailer leasing, transportation, travel agencies, upstream oil and gas, vacuum cleaner manufacturing, vitamins, window retailers, windows and door manufacturers.
Representative Work
Some of our recent competition/antitrust, advertising/marketing and contest law work for Toronto, Canadian and international clients includes:
Association competition law compliance, including in-person and online compliance programs for some of Canada’s largest associations; competition compliance for a major global construction products company; competition law compliance programs for small and large companies; advertising and marketing law advice (including for several of Canada’s and the world’s leading brands, local Canadian governments and several international governments); submissions to the Competition Bureau; filing Competition Bureau complaints; competition and advertising law related memoranda, applications for Competition Bureau advisory opinions; Canadian price-fixing cases; immunity applications to the Competition Bureau; contest law advice including for several local and international governments; competition law seminars and presentations for industry groups; drafting contest rules/forms; and assisting litigation counsel with competition law theory and strategies.
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
