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McMillan to merge with Lang Michener
Premium Article - Tuesday, 09 November 2010
One of Canada’s top competition law firms, McMillan LLP, has reached an agreement to combine with rival Lang Michener LLP, creating a firm with more than 400 lawyers and a competition law practice in nearly every major city in the country.
Panasonic pleads guilty to compressor cartel in Canada
Premium Article - Friday, 05 November 2010
Canada’s Competition Bureau has ended its investigation of a cartel in the refrigeration compressor market, after Panasonic agreed to plead guilty to its role in the case.
Investment rules put brakes on BHP/Potash
Premium Article - Thursday, 04 November 2010
The Canadian government has blocked a proposed takeover of Saskatchewan-based Potash Corporation by miner BHP Billiton under the country's investment rules - a move critics say smacks of politics.
Cargolux pleads in Canada
Premium Article - Friday, 29 October 2010
Luxembourg-based air carrier Cargolux has pleaded guilty to price-fixing charges brought by Canada’s Competition Bureau, just as two of the airline’s former executives are indicted in the US for their alleged role in the conspiracy.
Real estate association ratifies deal in Canada
Premium Article - Monday, 25 October 2010
Members of the Canadian Real Estate Association voted late last week to change the services its members are allowed to offer customers, officially ending a challenge from the country’s Competition Bureau that had seemed destined for the courtroom.
Investment rules can impact mergers, IBA panel says
Premium Article - Friday, 08 October 2010
A panel of antitrust specialists said yesterday discussed how Government agencies, acting in the public interest, can alter deals - sometimes in drastic ways. Ron Knox in Vancouver.
Canadian court releases evidence in price fixing case
Premium Article - Thursday, 07 October 2010
Quebec’s Superior Court has settled with two defendants who have pleaded guilty in a class action lawsuit to fixing the price of petrol.
Privilege issues in focus at IBA
Premium Article - Thursday, 07 October 2010
Written conversations and documents between lawyers and the companies they represent are the subject of vastly different privilege rules in jurisdictions around the world - something top antitrust lawyers suggest could put companies in peril. Ron Knox in Vancouver
Buyers swoop in for Canadian waste services assets
Premium Article - Thursday, 07 October 2010
Canada’s Competition Bureau has approved the initial divestitures ordered in the merger between IESI-BFC and Waste Services in the waste management industry.
Canada reaches deal with real estate association
Premium Article - Friday, 01 October 2010
Canada’s Competition Bureau has reached an agreement with the country’s real estate association (CREA) that, if approved by the association’s members, would solve the bureau’s competition concerns and stave off what could have been a long and contentious litigation. Ron Knox in Gatineau
Osler partner to join Canadian bureau in policy role
Premium Article - Friday, 01 October 2010
Janet Bolton, partner at Osler Hoskin and Harcourt LLP in Toronto, will join Canada’s Competition Bureau to assist with policy and merger matters.
Transparency at competition agencies is crucial, panel says
Premium Article - Friday, 01 October 2010
Competition agencies must make transparency a priority to boost credibility with both the public and the companies they help to regulate, a panel of some of the world’s top enforcers said yesterday. Ron Knox in Gatineau.
Aitken says bureau is streamlining enforcement practices
Premium Article - Friday, 01 October 2010
Canada's Competition Bureau has taken strides toward streamlining how it enforces the country's new competition laws, but has some distance left to travel, Melanie Aitken, Canada's competition commissioner said yesterday at a Canadian Bar Association event. Ron Knox in Gatineau.
Canadian lawyers take stock of new competition laws
Premium Article - Thursday, 30 September 2010
Amendments to Canada’s competition law may have ushered in new, forceful criminal sanctions for cartelists - but that doesn’t mean Canadian courts will dole out such punishments - nor should they, panellists at a Canadian Bar Association event said today. Ron Knox in Gatineau.
Coca-Cola caps off bottling merger with double antitrust approval
Premium Article - Tuesday, 28 September 2010
The Coca-Cola Company has agreed to behavioural restrictions in agreements with both the US Federal Trade Commission and Canada’s Competition Bureau to gain clearance for the purchase of its largest North American bottling business.
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