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Competition Litigation, including Class Actions


Class actions and allegations of competition law violation threaten your company’s ability to conduct daily business, complete mergers and build your brand at home or abroad.
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Overview

Class actions and allegations of competition law violation threaten your company’s ability to conduct daily business, complete mergers and build your brand at home or abroad.

In addition to defending clients in relation to investigations and prosecutions by competition enforcers, our Competition, Marketing & Foreign Investment (CMFI) team represents clients in class proceedings. Our clients include domestic and multinational corporations (MNCs) in a wide array of industries, such as aviation, transportation and logistics, telecommunications, media and entertainment, food, consumer products, chemicals, electronics, automotive, manufacturing, oil and gas and retail.

In Canada, we advise clients in high stakes competition civil and criminal litigation. Our competition lawyers have extensive trial and appellate experience, having appeared before Canada’s Competition Tribunal, superior courts in various provinces, the Federal Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. Members of our team have been involved in many of the leading and precedent setting litigated cases in Canada. 

In South Africa, we represent clients before the South African Competition Commission, the Competition Tribunal and the Competition Appeal Court. We have and continue to be involved in cartel defence work in cases before both the Tribunal and Appeal Court involving construction, steel, cement, resins and banking. Our lawyers defend clients’ interests by making comprehensive risk assessments and using reasoned, dynamic and highly effective courtroom advocacy.

For counsel that focuses on providing advice based on a 360o assessment and action plan, contact any member of our CMFI group to get you and your business “back on track”.

Client Work

  • Voxtur Analytics Corp. completes C$30.5 million acquisition of Appraisers Now Ltd.,
  • Music Choice vs. Stingray Digital Group Inc. and Nextologies Limited, Ongoing since September 2018
  • Urlin Rent a Car Ltd. v. Furukawa Electric, 2016 ONSC 7965,
  • Microsoft responds to major competition class action on behalf of indirect purchasers of PC software from Microsoft,
  • Royal Bank of Canada responds to major competition class action,
  • The Consumers' Association of Canada v. Coca-Cola Bottling Company et al, 2007 BCCA 356 (CanLII),
  • Exceldor acquires Grenville Poultry,

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