Canada
Practice Areas
Mike is a Partner in our Competition/Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group in Toronto. Specializing in the review of cross-border transactions and other governmental antitrust investigations, Mike assists clients to achieve their most important commercial objectives, in particular by devising and executing antitrust M&A strategies, including the negotiation and implementation of complex remedies before the Competition Bureau and Competition Tribunal.
He has extensive experience in a wide range of industries, in particular in telecommunications, media and technology, consumer products, infrastructure and transport, pharmaceuticals and financial services.
Having practiced for six years in the London office of a major international law firm – which included secondments in Brussels and Washington D.C. - Mike is well-versed in the global competition and foreign investment law landscape.
Career
Ontario, 2019
Ireland, 2016
England and Wales, 2012
Professional Memberships
Chair, Mergers Committee, Canadian Bar Association’s National Competition Law Section
Former Chair, Foreign Investment Review Committee, Canadian Bar Association’s National Competition Law Section
American Bar Association – Antitrust Section
International Bar Association – Antitrust Section
Publications
Co-author, the Canada chapter of GCR’s Foreign Direct Investment Regulation Guide (2021-present)
Co-author, the UK chapter of Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control (2015 to 2018)