Even More Double Jeopardy? Intersection of Competition Act and Sector Specific Merger Reviews: Financial Services, Telecom and Transportation

Counterfactual

In this episode of the Counterfactual podcast, we host a follow-on conversation from the recent CBA Mergers Committee Brownbag session on sector-specific merger reviews (for the transportation, financial services, and telecom industries) that take place in parallel to the Competition Act merger review process. The panelists (from government, private practice, and government relations) provide the key messages from the brownbag session and dive deeper into the key topics. The panelists explore how parallel sector-specific reviews present unique substantive and procedural challenges both for merging parties and government agencies, offering advice to merging parties on their counsel to best prepare for sector-specific reviews.