Firm Highlighted in Global Competition Review's GCR 100
Toronto (January 13, 2017) — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) is pleased to announce it has been ranked as a recommended firm in the 2017 edition of the Global Competition Review's GCR 100.
The GCR 100 also recognized Robert S. Russell and Subrata Bhattacharjee, the chair and vice-chair of BLG's Competition and Foreign Investment Review Group respectively, and noted the recent addition of partner Davit Akman in its analysis of the firm. The guide highlighted the team's recent successes for major clients, in which an Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruling reduced the size of the plaintiff class. The team's work defending Deutsche Bank in Canadian competition class action proceedings regarding alleged collusion to set foreign exchange rates and acting for Loblaw in the Canadian Competition Bureau's high-profile abuse of dominance investigation were also noted.
BLG's Competition and Foreign Investment Review Group offers comprehensive Canadian competition/antitrust and foreign investment advice to leading Canadian and global clients. The group's expertise includes cartel investigations and litigation, competition related litigation, merger clearance, foreign investment advice and reviews, and distribution, pricing and marketing and advertising. Its lawyers enjoy strong reputations for client service and quality, and the group is also recognized in Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and The Legal 500 Canada.
About The GCR 100
The GCR 100 is an extensive qualitative analysis of the world's leading competition and antitrust law practices with the publication profiling the best practices worldwide across 39 jurisdictions.