McCarthy Tétrault LLP

Oliver Borgers is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Toronto office and a member of the firm’s competition law group. He provides strategic advice to major national and international clients on all aspects of Canadian competition law including merger control. Mr Borgers also regularly obtains approvals of mergers under Canada’s foreign investment review laws, notably the Investment Canada Act.

Mr Borgers has extensive experience advising clients on pre-merger notifications and clearances, various marketing and pricing practices, market restrictions, exclusive dealing and other civil and criminal issues that arise out of Canadian antitrust law. Recent major matters have included mining, hospitality, entertainment, oil and gas, financial services, technology, consumer products, retail goods, and pharmaceutical industries.

Mr Borgers is recognised as a leading competition lawyer in Chambers’ Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers, The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers and The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists, Competition Law Review, Global Counsel 3000, Practical Law Company’s Competition Law Handbook and Lexpert’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, a guide to the leading law firms and practitioners in Canada.

He received an LLM from the University of Toronto in 1988; an LLB from the University of Ottawa in 1986; and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto in 1983. He has been a member of the Law Society of England and Wales since 1995 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1988. He speaks English, French and German, and some Spanish.