Biography: Competition

Sandra Forbes is a partner in the litigation and competition & foreign investment review practices. She specialises in corporate/commercial, competition, class action, and administrative litigation and has appeared before all levels of court in Canada, as well as numerous tribunals including the Ontario Securities Commission and the Competition Tribunal. She is defence counsel in many alleged price fixing class actions including those involving the hydrogen peroxide, carbonless sheets, air cargo, SRAM, DRAM, liquid crystal displays and linerboard/corrugated paper industries. Further, Sandra has significant experience in competition litigation including as a result of her role as counsel in various aspects of the Chapters/Indigo merger proceedings, the Agricore and United Grain Growers merger proceedings, the criminal investigation into the carbonless papers industry and the proceedings brought by the Commissioner of Competition against the Toronto Real Estate Board.

Sandra was admitted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. This is an "invitation only" organisation comprised of elite litigation counsel in Canada and the United States who are regarded by their peers as having achieved the highest standards of professional excellence and ethical conduct. She is internationally recognised as a leading business litigation practitioner by Best Lawyers in Canada, PLC Which lawyer?, Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, Who's Who Legal: Canada, the Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Litigation Lawyers in Canada, the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and in the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.

Sandra was a law clerk to the Honourable Peter Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1990 to 1991, past-president of The Advocates' Society (2009-2010), a member of the editorial board of the Ontario Reports (2005 to present), past chair of the enforcement practices and procedures committee of the Canadian Bar Association national competition law section (2004-2006), a contributing author to the Supreme Court Law Review (1999-2007) and adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Law School teaching Advanced Advocacy (2008 to present). She has given numerous papers and presented extensively at North American and international conferences, including the 2005 Law Society of Upper Canada Special Lectures at which she presented a paper on "Damages in Competition Law".