The Lexpert Guides to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate and Litigation Lawyers in Canada profiles leading business lawyers and features articles for attorneys and in-house counsel in the US about business law issues in Canada.
Issue link: https://digital.carswellmedia.com/i/218955
COMPETITION LAW Brian A. Facey Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Tel: (416) 863-4262 Fax: (416) 863-2653 Toronto brian.facey@blakes.com Adam F. Fanaki Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Tel: (416) 863-5564 Fax: (416) 863-0871 Toronto afanaki@dwpv.com Sandra A. Forbes Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP Tel: (416) 863-5574 Fax: (416) 863-0871 Toronto sforbes@dwpv.com Peter H.G. Franklyn Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Tel: (416) 862-6494 Fax: (416) 862-6666 Toronto pfranklyn@osler.com Co-chair of Blakes' Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group. Chair/President Canadian Bar Association, National Competition Law Section. Advises on all aspects of competition law 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). Also co-author of the Annotated Investment Canada Act: 2014, (all published by LexisNexis). Regularly represents leading corporations from Canada and around the world before governmental bodies, including the Competition Bureau, Competition Tribunal, Federal and Provincial courts and other regulatory agencies. BA (U of T); LLB (UBC); LLM (Georgetown). 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 lawyer in the Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada. Also named one of Lexpert® 's "Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40" (2006 & 2008). Litigation partner. Broad commercial litigation practice, including class actions defense, securities and competition litigation. Appeared before all levels of court in various Canadian provinces, the Federal Court and Supreme Court of Canada and various tribunals including Competition Tribunal, Ontario Securities Commission and Patented Medicines Prices Review Board. Defense counsel in various class actions (including Vitamins, Air Cargo, LCD Panels, Chocolate, Optical Disk Drives); counsel in various competition proceedings (including United Grain Growers' acquisition of Agricore Cooperative, the criminal prosecution relating to the chocolate confectionary industry, and Commissioner's application against Toronto Real Estate Board). Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers. Past President, The Advocates' Society. Member, Editorial Board, Ontario Reports. Adjunct Faculty, University of Toronto Law School in Advanced Advocacy. LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School. Law clerk to Justice Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada. Admitted to Ontario Bar (1992). 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 advisor on antitrust and foreign investment matters in numerous domestic and international publications. Advises leading Canadian and international clients such as General Motors, London Stock Exchange Group, Avis Budget, Viacom, Paramount, Sony, Simon & Schuster, Vale, 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 ebook publishing, automotive manufacturing, DRAM, LCD, SRAM, CRT, ODD, vitamins, fine papers and carbon block matters. Extensive experience in foreign investment/Investment Canada matters as well. LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca | 69