Ogilvy Renault LLP

Denis Gascon is a partner in the business law group at Ogilvy Renault, and chair of the competition/antitrust team. His areas of expertise are competition law and international trade. He represents Canadian and foreign-based clients before the Canadian Competition Bureau and the Competition Tribunal in merger transactions reviewed by the Commissioner of competition. He also regularly advises domestic and international clients with respect to their distribution and pricing practices and assists them in criminal investigation (including cartels) under the Competition Act.

He has experience in a wide variety of industries, such as transportation, pulp and paper, steel, telecommunications, book publishing, media and entertainment, agricultural products, financial services, real estate, food services, grocery, building products, newspaper distribution, home hardware and consumer products. In recent years, he acted as Canadian counsel in several major transactions involving clients such as ArcelorMittal, Quebecor Media, Domtar, Bourse de Montréal, Westco Group, RONA, Metro and Archer-Daniels-Midland. Mr Gascon has also appeared before the Canadian courts and agencies on dumping, trade remedy, safeguards and tariff relief matters. Over the past 20 years, he has been lead counsel in Canada for the ArcelorMittal group and its predecessors in numerous anti-dumping disputes.

Mr Gascon is recognised as one of Canada’s leading competition law and international trade law practitioners in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and in Best Lawyers in Canada as well as in various international publications such as Chambers’ Global, Legal Media Group, Global Counsel 3000, Global Competition Review and Practical Law Company’s Competition Law Handbook. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1989.