Norton Rose Fulbright
Client SatisfactionNorton Rose Fulbright's team takes care of the range of Canadian competition law mandates, namely cartels, merger review and criminal and civil antitrust litigation. The group is also well-versed in high-profile Bureau cartel investigations and ensuring compliance with the Investment Canada Act. Toronto-based practice head Chris Hersh specializes in M&A review, abuse of dominance cases and pricing and distribution issues. Montreal-based Eric Lefebvre and Calgary-based Rujuta Patel are additional key contacts for competition litigation and foreign investment review matters, respectively.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
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- 'Very well versed in the antitrust and class action areas.'
Key clients
- Food Health and Consumer Products Canada
- Metro
- Bausch Health
- Century 21 Canada
- The Canadian Hockey League, Québec Major Junior Hockey League, Ontario Hockey League and the Western Hockey League
- Crescent Point Energy
- Bonavista Energy
- Recochem
- H2O Innovation
- OpSens
- CAE
- Nouveau Monde Graphite
- Coliseum Capital Management
- DSM-Firmenich, Firmenich International, Firmenich of Canada
- Activision Blizzard
- Porter Airlines
- Brookfield Capital Partners
Work highlights
- Assisted food and pharmacy retailer Metro with an antitrust investigation by the Competition Bureau regarding bread cartel practices.
- Represented Bausch Health and its affiliates in a proposed Federal Court class action alleging an industry-wide conspiracy amongst drug manufacturers to allocate markets and fix the price of generic drugs in Canada.
- Advised Food Health and Consumer Products Canada on the possible creation of a Canadian grocery sector code of conduct similar to the UK's GSCOP.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Chris Hersh