Biography: Competition

Katherine Kay is a partner with the litigation and competition departments of Stikeman Elliott, and a member of the firm's partnership board and Toronto management committee. Her practice concentrates on complex commercial litigation, involving the overlap between regulatory, civil and criminal law regimes in multiple jurisdictions.

Katherine heads the firm's competition litigation practice and is lead counsel on cases dealing with all aspects of competition law, including criminal defence work, class and civil actions, mergers, abuse of dominance and other reviewable matters before the Competition Tribunal. A major focus of her practice is class actions defence, covering anti-competitive conduct and securities violations, product liability, franchise, and consumer cases. She has argued some of the leading class action cases in Canada.

Katherine's competition litigation practice emphasises the key aspects of formulating and coordinating strategic responses, often working closely with counsel in the US, Europe and other jurisdictions; directing multiple class actions across several Canadian jurisdictions, and highly effective advocacy before courts and tribunals throughout Canada.

Katherine's expertise is frequently recognised, including being described as 'arguably the best competition litigator Canada has to offer' by the Global Competition Review, as well as being ranked as one of the '100 Women in Antitrust'. She appears in The Best Lawyers in Canada; Lexpert/American Lawyer's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory; Lexpert's Guides to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Litigation and Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Global's The World's Leading Lawyers for Business (in which she is described as among 'the brightest litigators of her generation'; and in PLC's Cross-border Competition and Dispute Resolution Handbooks.