In this issue:

- Preface

- Key Trends for 2015

- Highlights from 2014

- 2014 Annual Report

- Mergers

- Foreign Investment

- Cartels

- Private Actions

- Conduct and Intellectual Property

- Advertising and Marketing

- E-Discovery

- Competition & Antitrust

- Foreign Investment Review

- Competition Litigation

- An excerpt from Key Trends for 2015:

- MERGERS:

Following the release of the Supreme Court of Canada’s (SCC) first mergers decision in nearly two decades, the role of effi ciencies will become ever more important to the merger review process for complex cases. The court affirmed the Commissioner’s legal burden to quantify the anticompetitive harm from a merger, meaning that merging parties that propose to advance an efficiencies defence will be asked to provide considerably more information and data during the course of a merger review, particularly as part of the supplementary information request (SIR) process.