Canada:
The Role Of The Efficiencies Defence In Canadian Competition Law: A Closer Look
28 December 2022
Stikeman Elliott LLP
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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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