Competition/Antitrust
Canada Guide 2025 : Nationwide - Canada
Band 2
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+1 416 865 7000About
Provided by McMillan LLP
McMillan boasts Canada’s only integrated national competition / antitrust practice with partners in all five major economic centres: Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.
Our lawyers across all offices routinely work together on matters that draw on their technical, industry and practice expertise to meet client needs. Our team is recognized internationally as one of Canada’s leading competition law practices by multiple global legal directories.
We offer an all-encompassing range of services:
- Our team defends clients across industries against allegations of anti-competitive practices, such as price fixing and misleading advertising claims.
- We regularly act for both domestic and international clients in all types of merger matters. Our lawyers have extensive experience obtaining merger clearances under the Competition Act, including adept management of second requests for information and coordinating their interactions with Canadian regulators with client teams in other jurisdictions.
- Our national presence and active involvement in class actions results in a seamless and effective approach to multi-jurisdictional cases, typical of class actions. We have worked with many of Canada’s leading companies and have defended claims of varying sizes and degrees of complexity.
- We provide our clients with support on developing internal risk management programs and executing internal compliance audits.
Chambers Review
Clients benefit from the broad spread of McMillan's experts across Canada, with lawyers based in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Montréal and Calgary. The law firm operates a well-known competition and antitrust practice that is widely recognised for its significant experience of class actions, frequently defending clients in allegations of anti-competitive behaviour and cartel involvement. The firm has a solid track record of advising on merger and foreign investment review files, often acting for multinational clients on mandates in the technology and transport sectors, as well as assisting private equity houses.
Work Highlights
- McMillan advised Sunwing Airlines on the competition law aspects of its merger with WestJet.
Strengths
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"The team at McMillan provided excellent counsel on novel aspects of emerging competition law, as well as insight into the existing regulatory framework."
"The McMillan team was well equipped with highly skilled lawyers and necessary resources, which enabled them to deliver quality services within the allotted timeframe."
"The team was able to quickly absorb complex new facts and apply legal principles."
"Responses to requests of all kinds were delivered promptly and provided precisely what was asked."
"McMillan also understand that law is a relationship business, and have invested in my success and the success of my team."
"The team at McMillan provided excellent counsel on novel aspects of emerging competition law, as well as insight into the existing regulatory framework."
"The McMillan team was well equipped with highly skilled lawyers and necessary resources, which enabled them to deliver quality services within the allotted timeframe."
"The team was able to quickly absorb complex new facts and apply legal principles."
"Responses to requests of all kinds were delivered promptly and provided precisely what was asked."
"McMillan also understand that law is a relationship business, and have invested in my success and the success of my team."
Notable Practitioners
Co-chair of the firm's antitrust group, Neil Campbell has notable experience assisting clients with merger clearance filings, including acting on contested reviews.
"Neil is wonderful to deal with and explains complex issues in easy-to-understand terms for those of us who are not experts in the area. I highly recommend him for competition matters."
"We have worked with Neil for many years and he never diasppoints."
David Kent frequently defends clients in high-value class actions alleging bid rigging and price fixing. He is particularly popular with clients in the technology sector.
"David is one of the finest litigators in Canada. He really understands competition stuff and is terrific on his feet."
"His strength is his ability to come up with the appropriate argument. He's done a very good job of taking some of our primary arguments and applying them."
James Musgrove advises clients on obtaining competition law clearance for complex transactions.
"He is a trusted adviser to my business."
"He did a good job at client management and keeping us up to date."
Based in Alberta, Beth Riley assists clients with merger clearance mandates, often acting for private equity houses.
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