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Practice covers competition/consumer protection, trade remedy & IP. Represents cli-
ents before the Competition Bureau, Competition Tribunal, Canadian International
Trade Tribunal, CRTC, Copyright Board, National Energy Board and Canada's Provin-
cial, Federal and Supreme Courts. Active member of Canadian Bar Association (CBA)
and American Bar Association. Past-chair, CBA Competition Law Section's Criminal
Matters Committee and VP/Treasurer, Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies.
Ranked in Chambers Global: e World's Leading Lawyers for Business, e Canadian Le-
gal Lexpert® Directory; Benchmark Canada; e Defi nitive Guide to Canada's Leading Liti-
gation Firms and Attorneys; Law Business Research's International Who's Who of Competi-
tion Lawyers & Economists and Who's Who Legal: Canada. Served as Special Counsel to
Commissioner of Competition. Former adjunct professor, Government Control of Busi-
ness, Faculty of Law, McGill University. Served as law clerk to (now) Chief Justice, Su-
preme Court of Canada, the Right Hon. Beverley McLachlin. Member of Ontario &
Québec Bars.
Partner and co-head of Goodmans' Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment
Group. Practice focuses on all aspects of Canadian competition law, including Canadian
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. Co-chair of the ABA Section of Anti-
trust Law's Foreign Investment and Antitrust Interface Task Force; Co-chair of the ICC's
Task Force on the ICN; Executive member of the Competition Committee of the Busi-
ness and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD. Co-editor, Competition Law of
Canada ( Juris Publishing ) and Editor, Foreign Investment Regulation Review (LBR,
2013). Ranked top tier for competition law in Chambers Global 2014. Recognized in Le-
gal Media Group's e Best of the Best 2013 top 30 Competition and Antitrust Attorneys
in the World; Law Business Research's International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers
2014, and other rankings. LLB from Osgoode Hall (Gold Medalist); LLM from Harvard.
A senior partner in Torys' Competition and Antitrust Practice. A merger specialist, Jay
Holsten has led some of the most complex and high-profi le merger transactions in Canada
in recent years. Also regularly advises clients in connection with cartel investigations and
abuse of dominance and other reviewable matters. Holsten has developed particular ex-
pertise in the Canadian fi nancial services sector (banking, insurance, securities) and has
been involved in most of the signifi cant M&A transactions in the sector over the past 15
years. Also acts for a number of major participants in the pharmaceutical sector, where he
advises on the competition law aspects of a variety of business arrangements, including
marketing and distribution arrangements, and patent litigation and related settlements.
Chair of the Executive Committee of the National Competition Law Section of the Ca-
nadian Bar Association. Author of numerous articles discussing recent developments in
Canadian competition law and policy. Became a partner at Torys in 1992. LLB, University
of Ottawa (Gold Medalist),1983. Ontario Bar, 1985.
Co-chair of the fi rm's Competition and Antitrust Practice Group and widely acknowl-
edged as one of Canada's leading competition lawyers. Has successfully handled the com-
petition law and Investment Canada aspects of numerous domestic and international
mergers and acquisitions and represented clients before the courts in criminal proceedings
under the Competition Act and before the Competition Tribunal in reviewable matters.
Represents clients in domestic, cross-border and other international conspiracy investiga-
tions and prosecutions involving the Competition Bureau in Canada, the US antitrust
authorities and other competition agencies around the world. Also represents clients in
substantial civil actions, including leading class actions, by those claiming damages as a re-
sult of anticompetitive conduct. Has acted as counsel for the Commissioner of Competi-
tion and for private-sector clients in leading merger and abuse of dominance cases before
the Competition Tribunal. Member of the ABA International Cartel Task Force and the
faculty of the ABA/IBA International Cartel Workshop.
Randall J.
Hofl ey
Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP
Tel: (416) 863-2387
Fax: (416) 863-2653
Toronto
Calvin S.
Goldman,
QC
Goodmans LLP
Tel: (416) 597-5914
Fax: (416) 979-1234
Toronto
R. Jay
Holsten
Torys LLP
Tel: (416) 865-7523
Fax: (416) 865-7380
Toronto
Randal T.
Hughes
Bennett
Jones LLP
Tel: (416) 777-7471
Fax: (416) 863-1716
Toronto
randall.hofl ey@blakes.com
cgoldman@goodmans.ca
jholsten@torys.com
hughesr@bennettjones.com
COMPETITION LAW
