Mandate
The Mergers Committee deals with the merger provisions of the Competition Act and is concerned with all procedural and substantive aspects of merger law and merger review.
Upcoming Committee Events
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Past Events
Double Jeopardy? Intersection of Competition Act and Sector Specific Merger Reviews: Financial Services, Telecom and Transportation launch (March 21, 2024)
Merger Review and Litigation After Section 96 launch (March 5, 2024)
Mergers and Monopolistic Practices Roundtable with the Competition Bureau launch (November 15, 2023)
The P&H Decision: Key Implications and Takeaways launch (January 20, 2023)
Mergers/Monopolistic Practices Roundtable launch (May 26, 2022)
The Nuts and Bolts of Merger Litigation launch (April 13, 2022)
Recent Developments in Competition Bureau Merger Review launch (March 23, 2022)
Mergers and Reviewable Matters/Unilateral Conduct Committees Joint Roundtable launch (May 19, 2021)
A Guide to Remedying Canada/US Cross-Border Mergers launch (April 28, 2021)
Non-Notifiable Mergers: A Changing Landscape? launch (April 21, 2021)
Mergers 102: Nuts and Bolts of the Failing Firm "Defence" launch (March 19, 2021)
Breaking it Down: Calculating and Incorporating Efficiencies 2.0 launch (March 2, 2021) Recording available upon request
Mergers 101: ARC Request Letters and Market Definition launch (November 23, 2020) Recording available upon request
Time to talk about efficiencies: A panel discussion on the Competition Bureau's model timing agreement for mergers involving claimed launch efficiencies launch (June 25, 2020) Recording available upon request
The Impact of COVID-19 on Merger Control launch (April 8, 2020) Recording available upon request
Not This Again: Pet Peeves and Pitfalls from Both Sides of a Merger Review launch (February 19, 2020)
Non-Price Effects and Dynamic Efficiencies: The Rise of Qualitative Analysis launch (December 11, 2019)
Mergers and Reviewable Matters/Unilateral Conduct Committees Joint Roundtable launch (May 22, 2019)
Managing Risk: Due Diligence and Information Exchanges Pre-Merger launch (April 23, 2019) Recording available upon request
How to Calculate and Incorporate Efficiencies launch (February 28, 2019)
ARC Requests and Market Definition 101 launch (December 18, 2018) Recording available upon request
Criminal Aspects of Canadian Mergers Practice: The Intersection of M&A and Cartels launch (November 26, 2018) Recording available upon request
Mergers Committee Roundtable with Competition Bureau Officials launch (May 31, 2018)
Q&A with the Bureau on Merger Efficiencies: everything you ever wanted to know, but were too afraid to ask...until now launch (March 26, 2018) Recording available upon request
Mergers 401: Consent Agreements launch (January 11, 2018) Recording launch
The View from the MNU launch (December 11, 2017) Recording launch
Merger Review and the Proposed Airline Antitrust Immunity Process under the Canada Transportation Act (August 8, 2017) Recording launch
Advanced Merger Counseling: Voluntary Merger Notification Regimes (May 31, 2017) Recording launch
Mergers Roundtable (May 26, 2017)
Merger Review in the World of the Internet (April 19, 2017) Recording launch
If it’s Broke, Ain’t it Worth Fixing? (March 24, 2017)
A Firsthand Analysis of the Parkland Case (January 25, 2017)
Mergers 301: Managing Your First SIR (November 22, 2016) Recording launch
Dis-synergies? Analyzing Efficiencies in Cross-Border Mergers (November 16, 2016) Recording launch
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Member Input
Ideas for program topics and other feedback to assist the committee in meeting members’ needs can be forwarded to the Committee Chair, David Dueck.
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