The CBA Competition Law and Foreign Investment Review Section’s Mergers Committee present:

Define “Restore”: Canada’s New Remedies Standard for Mergers

December 05, 2024 | 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Eastern
Online (Zoom)

Using a range of perspectives, including private practitioners in the United States and Canada, an antitrust economist and a representative from the Competition Bureau, this panel will unpack the “restore competition” standard for merger remedies introduced as part of Bill C-59 in June 2024.

The panel will discuss the motivation and rationale for amending Canada’s remedies standard, how the change may affect the remedy strategies of merging parties before the Bureau, and the sorts of evidence – economic or otherwise – that may be deployed to demonstrate the restoration or preservation of competition to absent merger levels. Throughout, the panel will seek to lean on the experience of the United States’s merger remedies process, including both case law and antitrust agency enforcement posture.

Moderator

Jonathan Bitran – Blake, Cassels & Graydon 

Speakers

Craig Minerva – Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Migiwa Tanaka, Charles River Associates

William Manning-Dewar, Competition Bureau