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Antitrust Provisions Canada Mergers

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Avantage concurrentiel par Blakes : mise à jour de mai 2025

Bienvenue à l’édition de mai de l’infolettre Avantage concurrentiel par Blakes, une publication mensuelle des groupes Concurrence et antitrust et Investissement étranger de Blakes. Avantage concurrentiel par Blakes présente...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Droit de la concurrence et investissements étrangers dans un contexte de mesures tarifaires et de tensions commerciales

Le contexte économique actuel pourrait bien induire des changements dans les normes et les tendances relatives aux examens réalisés en vertu de la Loi sur la concurrence et de la Loi sur Investissement Canada) (la « LIC »)....more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Navigating Compliance: Competition Law and Foreign Investment Reviews Amid Tariffs and Trade Tension

The current economic climate has the potential to reshape traditional norms and patterns for regulatory reviews under the Competition Act and the Investment Canada Act (ICA)....more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Avantage concurrentiel par Blakes : mise à jour de mars 2025

Bienvenue à l’édition de mars de l’infolettre Avantage concurrentiel par Blakes, une publication mensuelle des groupes Concurrence et antitrust et Investissement étranger de Blakes. Avantage concurrentiel par Blakes présente...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Blakes Competitive Edge™: March 2025 Update

Welcome to the March issue of Blakes Competitive Edge, a monthly publication of the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group. Blakes Competitive Edge provides an overview of recent developments in Canadian...more

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Rising review risk for deals not meeting merger control thresholds

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Antitrust authorities continue to make use of powers to scrutinize deals falling below merger control filing thresholds. Many that don’t have that ability, want it. The European Commission (EC) remains the frontrunner in...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Blakes Competitive Edge™: February 2025 Update

Welcome to the February issue of Blakes Competitive Edge, a monthly publication of the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group. Blakes Competitive Edge provides an overview of recent developments in Canadian...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Avantage concurrentiel par Blakes : mise à jour de janvier 2025

Bienvenue à l’édition de janvier de l’infolettre Avantage concurrentiel par Blakes, une publication mensuelle des groupes Concurrence et antitrust et Investissement étranger de Blakes. Avantage concurrentiel par Blakes...more

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Comments on Competition Bureau’s Consultation on its Merger Enforcement Guidelines

Davies recently submitted comments in response to consultations initiated by the Canadian Competition Bureau’s November 7, 2024 Discussion Paper on the Bureau’s review of its Merger Enforcement Guidelines (MEGs) to better...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Blakes Competitive Edge™: January 2025 Update

Welcome to the January issue of Blakes Competitive Edge, a monthly publication of the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group. Blakes Competitive Edge provides an overview of recent developments in Canadian...more

King & Spalding

The Trifecta: What to Expect from a Second Trump Administration and a Republican Congress

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Republicans have swept the 2024 elections, returning Donald Trump to the White House as the 47th President and flipping the Senate to a Republican majority. Having narrowly maintained control of the House of Representatives,...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Revamped Competition Act Radically Alters Canadian Competition Law

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In our previous Bennett Jones insight, we described several upcoming (and far-reaching) amendments to the Competition Act (the Act) introduced by the Government of Canada in 2023. The most recent set of amendments came into...more

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Federal Government to Significantly Overhaul the Competition Act

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Following several years of lively public discussion, two high-profile consultations and the introduction of several “interim amendments” to the Competition Act in 2022, the federal government has now tabled two new bills...more

Epiq

Canada Competition Regulation is Changing

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Five years from now, the global competition landscape will look completely different. Accelerated changes are materializing all over the world. There has been a distinct shift in the scope and breadth of investigations by...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Federal Court of Appeal Dismisses Competition Commissioner's Appeal in Rogers/Shaw/Videotron Deal

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Significance of Decision for Competition Law - - Transaction is the first merger to be fully contested by the Commissioner prior to closing. - The Tribunal and Federal Court of Appeal expedited their decisions,...more

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Competition Act Review Threshold Remains Same for Third Year in Row While Investment Canada Act Review Threshold Increases for...

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For the third year in a row the Competition Bureau announced that the transaction-size threshold for pre-merger notification under the Competition Act will be $93 million....more

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Competition Bureau Publishes Updated Information Bulletin on Transparency

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On October 25, 2022, the Competition Bureau published its new Information Bulletin on Transparency, which explains the approach the Bureau will take when communicating with different groups of people during its...more

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Canada First: Sound Policy Must Prevail over Groupthink

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The calls to reform Canada's antitrust framework are growing louder. On February 7, 2022, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Francois-Philippe Champagne, announced a comprehensive review of the Competition...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Blakes Competitive Edge™: December 2021 Update

Welcome to the December issue of Blakes Competitive Edge, a monthly publication of the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group. Blakes Competitive Edge provides an overview of recent developments in Canadian...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Blakes Competitive Edge™: October 2021 Update

Welcome to the October issue of Blakes Competitive Edge, a monthly publication of the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group. Blakes Competitive Edge provides an overview of recent developments in Canadian...more

White & Case LLP

Ahead of the pack: US M&A 2019: US dealmakers steer a steady path through global headwinds

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As the rest of the world backed away from the deal table, confident US corporates continued buying businesses—especially in the life sciences and TMT sectors, and particularly in the domestic market. US dealmakers had a...more

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