I offer a wide range of strategic and efficient competition/antitrust law, compliance, education and policy services for companies, associations, individuals and government agencies. I offer competition and foreign investment law services in relation to the merger, conspiracy (cartel), bid-rigging, abuse of dominance (monopoly), misleading advertising, promotional contest, deceptive marketing, price maintenance and other provisions of the Competition Act and Investment Canada Act.
ACADEMIC
- Competition law compliance programs and policies
- Academic, position and policy papers
- Submissions on proposed guidelines and legislative changes
- Competition law educational materials
- Competition and foreign investment law consulting
ADVERTISING
I help clients practically navigate Canada’s advertising and marketing laws and offer a range of Canadian advertising and marketing law services in relation to print, online, new media, mobile and e-mail marketing and telemarketing.
My services include advice and compliance in relation to Canada’s general civil and criminal misleading advertising rules under the federal Competition Act. I also offer advice in relation to specific types of advertising and regulation including Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL), direct marketing, gift card legislation, multi-level marketing and pyramid selling, packaging and labelling, promotional contests and sweepstakes, rebates, sales and promotions and telemarketing.
NEW!: Canadian Contest Forms and Checklists: Based on increased demand for efficient and affordable Canadian contest law rules, in addition to my contest law services I am now offering Canadian contest forms and precedents for the operation of random draw and skill contests in Canada (excluding Quebec). See: here.
ASSOCIATIONS
- Trade association competition law compliance programs
- Competition law compliance seminars and talks for association executives
- Audits and compliance reviews of trade association activities
- Advice on the application of the amended Competition Act
- Vetting trade association meetings, conventions and communications
- Reviewing association rules, bylaws, policies and voluntary codes
- General competition law and compliance advice
BID-RIGGING
- Advice on the application of the criminal bid rigging provisions
- Review and advice in relation to competitive tenders and proposals
- Compliance programs and policies
COMPETITION BUREAU INVESTIGATIONS
- Criminal and civil searches
- Criminal investigations and inquiries
- Compulsory production orders (section 11 orders)
- The Bureau’s Immunity and Leniency Programs
- Search and seizure guidelines
- Document retention programs and litigation hold procedures
COMPLIANCE PROGRAMS
- Competition law compliance programs and policies
- Competition law seminars for companies and trade associations
- Competition law talks and “lunch and learns” for companies and law firms
- Guidelines for board meetings, conferences and other meetings
- Document retention programs
COMPETITION LITIGATION
- Civil and criminal competition law litigation
- Private actions and “private access” proceedings
- Competition Bureau investigations and inquiries
- Compulsory and voluntary information requests
- Strategic advice in relation to marketplace issues and competitors
- Competition Bureau complaints
- Remedies for refusals to supply/deal
- Criminal and civil searches
COMPETITION LAW SEARCHES
- Advice in relation to competition law searches
- Advice in relation to compulsory production orders
- Search and seizure guidelines
- Document retention programs
CRIMINAL MATTERS & COMPETITOR COLLABORATIONS
- Application of the conspiracy provisions to commercial activities
- Structuring agreements and joint ventures to comply with the Competition Act
- Competition law compliance programs for companies and trade associations
- Guidelines for meetings, information exchanges and benchmarking projects
- Application of the Competition Bureau’s Immunity and Leniency Programs
- Applications for binding advisory opinions
MERGERS & INVESTMENT CANADA ACT
- Application of the Competition Act to mergers
- Application of the Investment Canada Act to foreign investment in Canada
- Canada’s national security review regime
- Canadian state-owned-enterprise rules
REFUSALS TO DEAL
- Application of the Competition Act to refusals to deal
- Tort, contract and other legal causes of action for refusals to deal
- Filing Competition Bureau complaints
- Private civil action remedies and strategies for terminations of supply
- Issues in relation to supply and distribution agreements
- Structuring terminations of supply to minimize risk to suppliers and distributors
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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