Michael Kilby and Lawson Hunter of our Competition & Foreign Investment Group recently co-authored an opinion piece in the Globe & Mail on the Canadian "efficiencies defence" under which a merger with anti-competitive effects may be allowed to proceed if those anti-competitive effects would be outweighed by economic efficiency gains.

Originally published in the Globe and Mail, Report on Business Opinion section, December 22, 2022.

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