Norton Rose Fulbright
Norton Rose Fulbright houses a practice that handles all aspects of Canadian competition law, including cartels, mergers, abuse of dominance, compliance, as well as criminal and civil antitrust litigation. While the group boasts a presence in Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Québec City and Ottawa, Toronto-based Chris Hersh steers the department; he specializes in M&A, abuse of dominance cases, pricing and distribution issues and criminal law matters. Eric Lefebvre, based in Montreal, is active on competition litigation matters, including class actions.
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Key clients
- Activision Blizzard
- Bausch Health
- CAE
- Canadian Hockey League
- Canam Bridges Canada
- Century 21 Canada
- Cresta Fund Management
- Food Health & Consumer Products Canada
- Genius Brand
- HEXO
- Metro
- Porter Airlines
- Recochem class action
- SITO National
- Telus
Work highlights
- Represented and advised Metro with respect to a price-fixing investigation by the Canadian Competition Bureau and two class actions related to this matter: one in Quebec and one in Ontario.
- Provided competition law and strategic advice to the Food Health & Consumer Products Canada (FHCP) with regard to the possible creation of a Canadian grocery sector code of conduct similar to the UK GSCOP.
- Advised Deltastream, a pure-play Canadian oil and gas company, on its sale to Tamarack Valley Energy and the sale of a 5% gross overriding royalty to Topaz Energy.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Chris Hersh