Biography • Who's Who Legal Canada: Competition

Jason Gudofsky is a partner in Blakes competition, antitrust and foreign investment group. He advises domestic and foreign firms on all aspects of competition law. He regularly provides strategic advice to firms involved in merger and joint venture transactions, including providing risk assessments, navigating reviews through the Canadian Competition Bureau and, where appropriate, co-ordinating and working with economists and foreign counsel. In addition to advising on mergers, Jason provides advice on all other aspects of competition law, including in respect of strategic alliances, unilateral conduct, cartel investigations and compliance matters. He has been involved in the negotiation of complex remedies and orders with the Competition Bureau and before the Competition Tribunal in the context of both mergers and cartel investigations.

Jason also has an active practice advising foreign investors and Canadian vendors under the Investment Canada Act and related guidelines, including the guidelines on investments in Canada by foreign state-owned enterprises. He has negotiated undertakings in a wide range of industries to secure net benefit to Canada determinations.

Jason has advised on hundreds of high-profile transactions in both the EU and Canada, including the following recent examples: CNOOC/Nexen; Motorola Solutions/Psion; Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Company/Daylight Energy; Johnson & Johnson/Synthes, Inc; Rank Group (UCI)/Honeywell's Consumer Products Group; Rank Group/Dopaco; Continental Airlines, Inc/United Airlines; Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Company/ConocoPhillips (Syncrude); Ericsson/Nortel (CDMA/LTE); and Suncor Energy Inc/Petro-Canada.

Jason has been recognised as a leading competition lawyer in various domestic and international legal publications including: Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2012, PLC Which Lawyer? 2012, and The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2012.