Huy Do is a partner and the co-leader of the Fasken’s Competition, Marketing & Foreign Investment group based in Toronto. He is also the leader of the firm’s Southeast Asia practice group. His practice focuses on anti-trust/competition, marketing and foreign investment law. Huy is a widely recognized leader in Canadian competition, marketing and foreign investment laws. He is a Past Chair and member of the Executive of the Competition Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association and serves as a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network, a network of antitrust/competition law enforcement agencies from around the world. Huy is ranked in Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, PLC Which Lawyer?, Who’s Who Legal, Canadian Lexpert, Lexpert ALM 500, Legal 500 Canada and Best Lawyers in Canada for his competition/anti-trust practice. Huy brings his wealth of experience, including from his time with the Competition Bureau, to advise clients in complex domestic and international competition law cases, including in relation to mergers, criminal cartels, deceptive marketing and abuse of dominance investigations. Huy also has extensive experience advising foreign clients, including state-owned enterprises, on economic and national security reviews under Canadian foreign investment law (Investment Canada Act).
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On September 28, 2023, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry and Technology (“INDU”) – the committee tasked with studying the legislation and activities of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada – concluded its study of Bill C-34: An Act to amend the Investment (...)
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On September 18, 2023, Bill C-352, which was introduced by Jagmeet Singh (leader of the NDP), had its first reading in the House of Commons (the “Singh Bill”). On September 21, 2023, Bill C-56, which was introduced by Chrystia Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance), also (...)
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In an unprecedented intervention by the European Commission (EC), the EC recently asserted jurisdiction over and challenged a United States-based merger that falls below the filing thresholds of the EC and each and every European Union Member State. This action threatens to subject future (...)
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On June 27, 2023 the United States Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced proposed changes to the pre-merger notification process under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (the “HSR Act”). These proposed changes were published on June 29, 2023. (...)
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On June 27, 2023, the Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”) released its “Retail Grocery Market Study Report” (the “Report”). The Report is the result of the October 24, 2022 announcement by the Bureau that it would conduct a study of grocery store competition in Canada. The Report observes (...)
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Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne (the “Minister”), announced on December 7, 2022 his commitment to protecting Canada’s economic and national security. Focused on key sectors such as critical minerals and artificial intelligence, (...)
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As discussed in our previous blog post, on November 17, 2022, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, launched the much anticipated public consultation on the second stage of potential amendments to the Competition Act (the “Act”). As part of (...)
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Recognizing the critical role of the Competition Act (the “Act”) in promoting dynamic and fair markets, Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, announced on February 7, 2022 that he would carefully evaluate potential ways to improve (...)
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On May 6, 2021, the Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”) released its new (and long-awaited) competitor collaboration guidelines (the “New CCGs”). This is the first update to these guidelines since the previous version was published by the Bureau over a decade ago, in 2009 (the “2009 CCGs”). (...)
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On April 1, 2021, the Government of Canada announced two important updates relating to merger filing fees: (i) a decreased merger filing fee ($74,905.57), and (ii) a new Service Fees Remission Policy. Decreased Merger Filing Fee for 2021 Effective immediately, the Competition Bureau’s (the (...)
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On March 24, 2021, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry (the “Minister”) announced updates to the Guidelines on the National Security Review of Investments (the “Guidelines”) issued under the Investment Canada Act (the “ICA”). This first update since the Guidelines were issued (...)
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The COVID-19 crisis has caused havoc to daily life and to economies around the world. Among other things, it has put immense pressure on businesses to coordinate and collaborate with each other in order to address unprecedented disruptions to major parts of the economy (e.g., shortages of (...)
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The Canadian Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”) released some informative statistics summarizing the number and characteristics of merger reviews started and concluded by the Bureau’s Mergers Directorate in its 2019-2020 fiscal year (ending March 31, 2020). In past years, similar information (...)
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In recent years, competition/antitrust enforcers around the world, including Canada, have taken a marked interest in private equity deals. As part of a broader global trend of tougher merger enforcement, private equity firms that have taken ownership positions (controlling or minority) in (...)
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On October 26, 2017, the Canadian Competition Bureau (“Bureau”) released for public comment a revised version of its Immunity Program, under which a party may receive immunity from criminal prosecution if the party is the first to disclose an offence and agrees to cooperate with the Bureau’s (...)
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On September 29, 2016, the Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”) released a revised consent agreement template for merger remedy negotiations. The release of the Bureau’s updated template is timely, as the number of consent agreements registered with the Competition Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) have (...)
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On July 28, 2016, the Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”) released its 2016-2017 Annual Plan, entitled “Strengthening Competition To Drive Innovation”. While this year’s Annual Plan ostensibly repackages both the Bureau’s 3-year Strategic Vision and its 2015-16 Annual Plan, it does contain a few (...)
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Despite the fact that Canada’s Competition Bureau had concluded that the proposed acquisition of Canexus Corporation by Superior Plus Corp. would likely result in a substantial lessening of competition for the supply of various industrial chemical products in Canada, the Bureau issued a “no (...)
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On April 27, 2016, the Competition Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) ended the years-long dispute between the Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”) and the Toronto Real Estate Board (“TREB”) by ruling that certain of TREB’s practices are anticompetitive. TREB — an association of real estate brokers — (...)
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On March 31, 2016, the Competition Bureau (“Bureau”) published the long-awaited update to its Intellectual Property Enforcement Guidelines (“IPEGs”). According to the Bureau, the aim of the updated IPEGs is threefold. They: Clarify the Bureau’s position on patent litigation settlements and (...)
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In an unprecedented move in Canadian competition litigation, the Competition Bureau and Parkland Fuel Corporation (“Parkland”) reached a consent agreement through mediation on March 29, 2016. The dispute—which was founded on the Commissioner of Competition’s (“Commissioner”) concerns that (...)
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On March 25, 2015, three substantive amendments (the “Amendments”) to the Investment Canada Act (the “Act”) and its regulations were published in the Canada Gazette: Subject to certain exceptions, the “net benefit to Canada” review threshold will be increased to $600 million and will be (...)
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Increases to the merger notification thresholds under the Competition Act and the investment review threshold under the Investment Canada Act have been announced. Competition Act As published in Part I of the Canada Gazette on February 7, 2015, the pre-merger notification threshold (...)
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On May 5, 2014, the Competition Bureau published its inaugural “2014-2015 Annual Plan: Promoting Compliance for the Benefit of Canadian Consumers”, which briefly summarizes its activities in its 2013-2014 fiscal year and setting out its priorities for the coming year. Summary of Bureau (...)
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Antitrust/Competition & Marketing Bulletin Overview On April 18, 2013 before Justice L.D. Ratushny of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, a Japanese supplier of motor vehicle components, Yazaki Corporation (“Yazaki”) pleaded guilty to three counts of bid-rigging, in violation of (...)
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Antitrust/Competition & Marketing Bulletin Overview On April 4, 2013 before Justice L. De Sousa of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, a Japanese supplier of motor vehicle components, Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. (“Furukawa”), pleaded guilty for bid-rigging, in violation of (...)
