Competition Law of Canada

Price: $275.00 1500 pages. 2 Looseleaf Volumes and one CD Rom. Appendices. Table of Cases. Updated Annually or when Needed.
ISBN-13: 978-1-57823-096-9 / ISBN-10: 1-57823-096-9

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Table of Contents

About the Book:
Written by leading members of the Competition Practice Groups of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP and Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP, Competition Law of Canada is the definitive work on the subject and is recognized by the Canadian Legal Expert Directory 2002 as most frequently cited as the leading loose leaf service on Canadian competition law. Organized in a logical, easily accessible format, this work provides comprehensive analysis, historical perspective and practical examination of Canadian competition law. All the major areas of competition law are examined in individual detailed chapters, including:

• Mergers and Notifiable Transactions
• Abuse of Dominance
• Conspiracy and Agreements in Restraint of Trade
• Pricing Practices
• Distribution Practices
• Unfair Sales Practices
• Regulated Conduct
• Intellectual Property and Competition Law
• International Aspects of Competition Law

As well as being updated twice yearly, this service includes as Appendices (on CD ROM) important competition related legislation, regulations, guidelines, treaties, speeches, cases and decisions (many unreported) and advisory opinions-as well as periodic Legal Letters to advise readers of significant developments that impact on Canadian competition law in the interim between releases.

About the General Editors:
Calvin S. Goldman, Q.C., is a Partner with Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, one of Canada's leading law firms with more than 450 lawyers in five offices across Canada as well as London and Beijing. Mr. Goldman began his professional career at Blakes in 1976 where he remained with the firm specializing in antitrust litigation until 1986 when he was appointed Director (since renamed "Commissioner") of the Competition Bureau in the Canadian Government. As such, he was the first head of the Competition Bureau under the new Competition Act. He returned to private practice in 1990. His practice covers all aspects of competition law and trade practices. This includes strategic advice and representation before the Competition Bureau in relation to mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, abuse of dominance and other reviewable trade practice matters. It also includes advice and representation in relation to the range of criminal matters under the Competition Act. A substantial portion of his practice involves trans-border mergers and criminal cases. In recent years, Mr. Goldman's practice also has included an increasing number of cases pertaining to competition issues in information technology industries. Cal is Chair, International Chamber of Commerce's Task Force on Competition and International Trade; Vice-Chair, Competition Committee of the Business & Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD, and Chair, Competition Policy Committee, Canadian Council for International Business. Over the course of his career, Mr. Goldman has been appointed to a number of positions, in addition to having been the Director of the Competition Bureau, including: Assistant Special Prosecutor for the Attorney General of Canada in the uranium cartel proceedings, 1977-1983; Vice-Chair of the OECD Committee on Competition Law and Policy, 1987-1989; First appointee to the Soloway Chair of Business and Trade Law, University of Ottawa, 1989-1990; and Special Counsel to the Attorney-General of Canada in the appellate proceedings relating to the constitutionality of the conspiracy section of the Competition Act, 1991-1992; Past Co-Chair of the International Antitrust and Foreign Competition Law Committee, American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, 1998 - 2001. Past Chair, National Competition Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association, 1995 - 1996. Member of the Advisory Boards of the BNA Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report and the Canadian Competition Record. Mr. Goldman has become known as a pre-eminent competition lawyer both in Canada and abroad. Nationally, he is recognized as one of the most frequently recommended competition law practitioners in The Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory 2001 and is included in LEXPERT's The 2001 Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. Internationally, he is the only Canadian lawyer to be identified in the November 2001 issue of Global Counsel as one of the top 10 antitrust lawyers in the world. He was also named one of the world's top 20 competition and antitrust lawyers in Euromoney's The Best of the Best 2000. Further, The World's Leading Lawyers 2001-2002, published by Chambers Global, refers to Cal as being thought of by many to be Canada's "top competition lawyer".

John D. Bodrug is a Partner with Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, one of Canada's leading business law firms, with 200 lawyers conducting a national and international practice from offices in Toronto, Montréal, New York and Beijing. Mr. Bodrug has practiced competition law for over 13 years and has extensive experience in all aspects of competition law, including mergers, price fixing investigations (such as the thermal fax paper inquiry) and other pricing, distribution and advertising matters. He has represented and advised Canadian and U.S.-based corporations in many different industries, including the energy and resources, transportation, agricultural, manufacturing, financial services, retailing and consumer products sectors. He is currently a Vice-Chair of the Reviewable Matters and Private Actions Committee of the Competition Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association. He acted as special counsel for the Commissioner of Competition in the Competition Tribunal proceedings relating to the Interac shared electronic financial services network. He has written numerous articles, including articles on the Canadian merger enforcement process in the ABA's Antitrust Law Journal and Antitrust magazine. Mr. Bodrug is a frequent speaker at CBA, ABA and other conferences, and has lectured on competition law at the University of Western Ontario Law School. Mr. Bodrug is included in Chambers Global's The World's Leading Lawyers , Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers and Law Business Research's International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers, and is annually recognized as a repeatedly recommended competition law practitioner in the Canadian Legal LEXPERT directory.

About the Editorial Board:
The editorial board includes leading members of the competiton practice groups of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP and Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP.  The Board includes Milos Barutciski.  From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Barutciski was the Special Advisor to the Director of Investigation and Research, advising with respect to mergers, civil and criminal matters, with a particular emphasis on international antitrust.  In 1994-1995, Mr. Barutciski was retained by the Competition Bureau to negotiate bilateral competition policy agreements with the United States and the European Union, as well as to advise on other international competition law issues.

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