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Competition and Foreign Investment Review

Torys is recognized nationally and internationally for its leading Canadian competition and foreign investment review practice. Our strength in this area comes from the depth and experience of our team and the creative and business-minded approach we bring to complex matters.

Our team is distinguished by our integrated practice approach and ability to bring to bear cutting-edge advisory and adversarial skills. We specialize in complex Canadian and international merger transactions; cartel investigations and class actions; and abuse of dominance investigations. Our involvement in ground-breaking matters provides our lawyers with unparalleled expertise and perspective to handle the challenges of a complex regulatory enforcement environment.

Competition Litigation

Torys has one of Canada's leading competition litigation practices, with litigators who appear frequently before courts of all levels, including provincial courts, the Supreme Court of Canada and the Competition Tribunal.

Torys represents national and international companies, individual defendants and trade associations in connection with criminal antitrust investigations and prosecutions. We have successfully represented defendants against charges of anticompetitive conduct at trial.

Chambers Review

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Competition/Antitrust - Canada

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Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Torys' competition department leverages the market-leading strength of the firm's Toronto and Calgary-based corporate group to advise on major merger clearance issues, particularly in the energy and financial services sectors. The firm also has experience in behavioural matters, defending clients in class action disputes over possible cartels, as well as representing them before the Competition Bureau in sector inquiries. The team also assists clients with competition compliance issues regarding pricing strategies.

Work Highlights

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  • Torys acted as Canadian counsel to BCI, Glencore and CPP Investments as the shareholders on Viterra's proposed USD34 billion merger with Bunge.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Linda M Plumpton
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Linda M Plumpton
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Band 1

Linda Plumpton is an outstanding antitrust litigator who represents clients in class action proceedings arising from potential breaches of the Competition Act, with notable experience in price-fixing allegations.

Linda Plumpton is very smart with practical litigation advice that represents the challenging business environments we find ourselves in.

She's the go-to lawyer in Toronto for high-stakes litigation.

Linda is a superb litigator. She has a profound understanding of the law and is an excellent adviser.

Linda Plumpton is often the first thought for who to hire for high-stakes litigation in this space.

We are lucky to have Linda Plumpton on our side.

Omar K Wakil
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Omar K Wakil
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Band 1

Omar Wakil is highly regarded in the Canadian market for assisting clients with obtaining competition law clearance for a range of high-value corporate transactions. He is particularly popular with clients from the energy and financial services sectors.

Omar is an excellent lawyer and our go-to Canadian counsel for any antitrust matters.

Omar Wakil is bright, practical, focused and genuinely curious to learn about our business and understand the best way to advocate on our behalf.

Omar Wakil is a leader in the Canadian antitrust community.

His advice has been timely and of very high quality.

Omar is extremely well connected and has a deep understanding of the complexities of antitrust law. He is able to look around corners to anticipate problems and find creative solutions.

Dany H Assaf
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Dany H Assaf
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Band 4
Dany Assaf assists clients with merger clearance filings for proposed joint ventures and other transactions. In addition, he advises on the competition aspects of collaboration agreements and pricing strategies, as well as representing clients in market studies.

He is a very capable adviser who inspires confidence based on his deep knowledge of the law.

Dany Assaf is an excellent expert at competition law with commercial savvy.

Dany Assaf is a key partner and strategic adviser. He is is extremely client-focused and a pleasure to work with.

Dany Assaf is very practical and very good. We love working with him because of his excellent institutional knowledge.

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Competition/Antitrust

Omar K Wakil
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Omar K Wakil
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Band 1
Dany H Assaf
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Dany H Assaf
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Band 4
Competition/Antitrust: Litigators

Linda M Plumpton
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Linda M Plumpton
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Band 1

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