Steve Szentesi advises domestic and foreign business clients in a wide range of matters involving competition/antitrust law and foreign investment law. He advises individuals and organizations on how to comply with laws and regulations in these areas and also provides counsel to clients in civil proceedings and regulatory proceedings involving the Competition Bureau of Canada and other such enforcement bodies. He counsels clients in matters involving allegations such as price fixing, abuse of dominance, and misleading advertising, and he has worked on hundreds of domestic and cross-border competition law matters.
He has practised competition and international trade law at several leading Canadian and international business law firms including Lang Michener (Vancouver), Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg (Toronto) and Linklaters (London, U.K.). His academic work includes three years as adjunct professor of competition law at the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law. He also served as in-house competition law counsel for The Canadian Real Estate Association in Ottawa, one of Canada’s largest single industry trade associations, during which he provided competition law and compliance advice to CREA and its approximately 100+ member real estate boards and associations across Canada. He has published widely in the competition law field for the past eleven years and is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and industry events. He has a particular interest in the application of Canadian competition law to trade and professional associations and is the co-author of The Competition Law Guide for Trade Associations in Canada (Carswell, 2012).
CONTACT INFORMATION
Hakemi & Company Law Corporation
1500 – 885 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
V6C 3E8
Steve Szentesi
Tel: 604 601 2020 (main)
Tel: 604 601 2047 (direct)
Tel: 778 867 5558 (mobile)
Tel: 604 648 9170 (fax)
E-mail: sszentesi@hakemi.com
EDUCATION
- LL.B. – Dalhousie University
- M.A. – University of Toronto
- B.A. – University of Toronto
BAR ADMISSIONS
- British Columbia
- Alberta (non-active)
- Ontario (retired)
- England and Wales (non-active)
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Agriculture, airlines, architectural woodworking, 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, LCD monitors, manufacturing, media, mining, news wire services, online contests, online gaming, pet food, pharmacies, port terminal grain handling facilities, potash, printing, rail, real estate, real estate self-storage, real estate boards, real estate services, retail, retail books, satellite communications, silver mining, social media, software, stock exchange services, telecommunications, telemarketing, theatre exhibition and film distribution, trade associations, trailer leasing, transportation and vitamins.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
Representative Matters and Projects
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Presentations and Speaking Engagements
PUBLICATIONS
RECENT MEDIA
OUR BOOKS
The Competition Law Guide for Trade Associations in Canada is a practical and concise summary of Canadian competition law as it applies to trade, professional and other associations.
OUR 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.
This course is available
to members of Canadian
real estate boards.
For more information see ACRE