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Dr. A. Neil Campbell
Partner
Toronto
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Tel :
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416.865.7025
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Fax :
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416.865.7048
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Professional Experience
- Partner in the Competition and Trade Law Groups. Member of the firm's Board of Partners, 2001 – 2007.
- Competition law practice - representing companies in cartel, abuse of dominance and other competition law proceedings; merger clearances under the Competition Act and foreign investment reviews under the Investment Canada Act; advising on marketing, distribution and joint venture issues; and submissions to governments on competition policy issues.
- Trade law practice - anti-dumping and subsidy proceedings; NAFTA, WTO, and Canadian Internal Trade Agreement matters; export/import controls and trade sanctions; foreign corrupt practices; investor-state disputes under NAFTA and bilateral investment treaties; and lobbying on trade policy issues.
- Industry expertise - worked on cases in most industries with particular emphasis on financial services, energy and natural resources, communications, information technology, transportation, pharmaceuticals and chemicals, food/beverage, and other consumer products.
- Chair (part-time) of the Market Surveillance Panel which monitors the operation of the wholesale electricity markets in Ontario, 2007 – 2012.
- Special counsel to the CRTC on Canwest/Alliance Atlantis and BCE foreign ownership reviews.
- Special counsel to the Competition Bureau on the review of BHP Billiton/Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan.
- Member of the Competition Bureau's External Working Group on Reform of the Conspiracy Offence, 2005 – 2007.
professional directories
- Named one of the world's top 25 competition lawyers in Legal Media Group's Best of the Best.
- Listed as a leading lawyer in Chambers Global, International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers, Guide to the World's Leading International Trade Lawyers, Lexpert and other directories.
publications and presentations
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- advertising and marketing
- automotive
- competition/antitrust
- electricity
- energy
- foreign investment review
- international business and trade law
- public policy and government relations
- Canadian Bar Association – member of the International Law Section and the Competition Law Section (past chair of the International Competition and Trade Committee and past co-chair of the Tri-National Bar Association Task Force on the Competition Dimensions of NAFTA)
- American Bar Association – member of the Section of Antitrust Law (member of the International Task Force) and the International Law Section
- International Bar Association – Co-Chair of the Antitrust Committee, Antitrust and Trade Section
Called to the Ontario bar
- 1991
University of Toronto, SJD (Competition Law) – (Governor General's Medal;study of Canada's merger review system won the Alan Marks Medal for best graduate thesis)
- 1993
Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB/MBA (dual gold medallist and Governor General's Medal)
- 1989
Certified Management Accountant, (National Gold Medalist)
- 1988
University of Western Ontario, BA (Hons.) (gold medallist)
- 1982
Taught at the University of Western Ontario, (Ivey School of Business), York University, Osgoode Hall Law School and University of Toronto,
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