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COMPETITION LAW Brian A. Facey Co-chair of Blakes' Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group. Chair/ President Canadian Bar Association, National Competition Law Section. Advises on all aspects of competition and foreign investment law. Highly ranked and described as "one of Canada's most prominent competition lawyers" and as "one of the absolute best in the country right now." Co-author of two treatises on competition law: Competition and Antitrust Laws in Canada: Mergers, Joint Ventures and Competitor Collaborations (2013), and Competition and Antitrust Law: Canada and the United States (2006); and the Investment Canada Act: Commentary and Annotations (2013), (all published by LexisNexis). Significant transactional matters include: Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV in its acquisition of Grupo Modelo, SAB de CV; Bell Canada in its acquisitions in relation to Astral, Q9, and MLSE (which owns The Toronto Maple Leafs), and many others. BA (U of T); LLB (UBC); LLM (Georgetown). Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Tel: (416) 863-4262 Fax: (416) 863-2653 Toronto T F brian.facey@blakes.com Adam F. Fanaki Advises clients on all aspects of Canadian competition and foreign investment review law. Recently acted as Senior Deputy Commissioner of Competition and head of the Canadian Competition Bureau's Mergers Branch and, before that, as the Special Counsel to Canada's Commissioner of Competition. Represents parties in significant merger transactions, international and domestic criminal investigations, abuse of dominance and misleading advertising cases. Acted as counsel in a number of proceedings before the Competition Tribunal and complex, litigated proceedings before various Canadian courts, including representing the Commissioner of Competition against Visa and MasterCard in the first litigated proceeding under the civil price maintenance provision. Consistently recognized as one of Canada's leading competition lawyers, including in Who's Who Legal: Canada, Chambers Global and PLC Which Lawyer? and as a top competition law litigator in the Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Crossborder Litigation Lawyers in Canada. Also named one of Canada's "Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40" by Lexpert® (2006 and 2008). Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Tel: (416) 863-5564 Fax: (416) 863-0871 Toronto T F afanaki@dwpv.com Peter H.G. Franklyn Partner in the firm's Competition/Antitrust and Foreign Investment Law Group, which is consistently ranked as one of the top Canadian firms in the field. Consistently recognized as a leading antitrust adviser in numerous domestic and international publications. Advises leading Canadian and international clients such as General Motors, Procter & Gamble, Viacom, Sony, Simon & Schuster, Microsoft, Dupont, Honeywell, Philips Electronics and several of Canada's leading financial institutions, pension funds, media, publishing, mining and steel companies; and others in complex, multijurisdictional M&A transactions. Also represented clients in a variety of civil and criminal matters, government investigations and/or related class actions including automotive manufacturing, DRAM, LCD, SRAM, CRT, ODD, vitamins, fine papers and carbon block matters. Extensive experience in foreign investment/Investment Canada matters as well. Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (416) 862-6494 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto T F pfranklyn@osler.com Calvin S. Goldman, QC Co-chair of Blakes' Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group. Practice focuses on all aspects of Canadian competition law, including domestic and international mergers, abuse of dominance, cartels and civil reviewable matters, as well as representation in foreign investment reviews under the Investment Canada Act. Former Commissioner, Canadian Competition Bureau. Member of the Leadership of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law; Co-chair of the ICC's Task Force on the ICN; Special Competition Committee Advisor to the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD; co-editor, Competition Law of Canada (Juris). Only Canadian lawyer recognized as a "star individual" for competition law in Chambers Global 2013: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business. Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2013; and The 2012 Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Litigation Lawyers in Canada, and other rankings. Clients have included Bell Canada; BHP Billiton; Maple Group Acquisition Corp.; Merck; Microsoft; Nestlé SA; Pearson plc; Sinopec International; Samsung; Suncor Energy. Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Tel: (416) 863-2280 Fax: (416) 863-2653 Toronto cal.goldman@blakes.com 68 | LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca D-00-Bios.indd 68 13-05-16 1:50 PM T F