Kevin Ackhurst is a partner in the
Competition & Foreign Investment group. He has over 20 years of extensive experience providing timely and practical advice to help businesses navigate the Canadian regulatory processes involved in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic alliances. Kevin advises on civil and criminal competition law matters, including abuse of dominance, cartels, competitor collaborations, mergers, misleading advertising, and pricing and distribution practices. To assist clients in staying onside the
Competition Act, Kevin develops and helps implement competition law compliance programs for large and small organizations. Kevin also advises clients on the review of foreign investments under the net benefit and national security provisions of the
Investment Canada Act. Kevin works with Canadian and international clients across a broad range of industries, including aerospace, agribusiness, automotive, consumer products, energy, film, video, publishing and recorded music, financial services, mining, newspaper, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, telecommunications, and transportation.