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COMPETITION LAW Omar K. Wakil Torys LLP Partner in Torys' Competition and Antitrust Group and chair of the firm's Foreign Investment Review Group. Advises domestic/international clients on all aspects of competition law and on foreign investment reviews under the Investment Canada Act. Author of the Annotated Competition Act and Annotated Investment Canada Act (Carswell), speaks frequently at universities and professional conferences in Canada and abroad and is the vice-chair of the Foreign Investment Review Committee of the CBA's National Competition Law Section. In 2008 named by Global Competition Review as one of the world's 40 leading competition lawyers under the age of 40. Solicitor, England & Wales, 2003; Ontario Bar, 1996; LLB, 1994, University of Toronto; BA, 1991, University of Western Ontario. Tel: (416) 865-7635 Fax: (416) 865-7380 Toronto owakil@torys.com Lawson A.W. Hunter, QC Lawson Hunter is competition, regulatory and government relations counsel at Stikeman Elliott and former head of the Competition and Foreign Investment Group. Previously Canada's senior civil servant in charge of competition policy and enforcement, and primarily responsible for drafting the federal Competition Act. Previously served as executive vice president and chief corporate officer of Bell Canada and BCE Inc., responsible for overseeing regulatory, governmental relations and corporate affairs. Advises corporations on all aspects of federal regulatory law and policy, including competition and antitrust matters, foreign investment legislation, anti-dumping and international trade, telecommunications law and Heritage Canada issues. Particularly noted for his experience as an advisor on regulatory aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Recent mergers include CNOOC/Nexen, Transcontinental/Quad/Graphics, Johnson & Johnson/Synthes, Canadian Tire/Forzani Group and PotashCorp/BHP Billiton. Stikeman Elliott LLP Tel: (613) 566-0527 Fax: (613) 231-3191 Ottawa lhunter@stikeman.com Denis Gascon Denis Gascon is a partner in Norton Rose's Business Law Group and head of the Antitrust, Competition and Regulatory team in Canada. His expertise is competition law and international trade. He advises domestic and international clients on Canadian and multi-jurisdictional merger transactions; criminal cartel and conspiracy cases; distribution strategies and pricing practices; compliance issues; and trade remedy cases. He represents clients before the Canadian Competition Bureau and the Competition Tribunal, and also assists them in foreign investment reviews. He has acted for clients such as JTEKT, Resolute FP, RockTenn, Valeant, Quebecor Media, Westco, RONA, Metro, Sharp and Suncor. He has also appeared before courts and agencies in dumping and safeguards matters, being lead counsel for ArcelorMittal in Canadian trade disputes for more than 20 years. He has experience in a variety of industries, such as transportation, pulp and paper, steel, media, agriculture, financial services, food products and services, pharmaceuticals, newspaper distribution, home hardware and consumer products. Norton Rose Canada LLP Tel: (514) 847-4435 Fax: (514) 286-5474 Montréal denis.gascon@nortonrose.com LEXPERT • June 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 71 D-00-Bios.indd 71 13-05-23 12:15 PM