Anthony F Baldanza

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP

Tony Baldanza is chair of Fasken Martineau’s antitrust/competition and marketing law group and a partner of the firm. He practises business law, with a focus on competition law and foreign investment law.

Tony provides advice and representation in relation to mergers, criminal matters (including cartels) and restrictive trade practices. In his merger practice, Tony has handled merger transactions in a wide range of industries, and regularly assists clients in clearing such transactions through the Canadian Competition Bureau pursuant to the Competition Act; the Investment Review Division of Industry Canada and Cultural Sector Investment Review pursuant to the Investment Canada Act; Transport Canada pursuant to the Canada Transportation Act; and, along with counsel in other jurisdictions, the competition law and antitrust authorities of other jurisdictions.

Tony is immediate past chair of the foreign investment review committee of the Canadian Bar Association’s section on Competition Law and is a past chair of the section’s mergers committee.

Tony is a frequent speaker at professional seminars and conferences on a wide range of competition law and foreign investment law topics, including conferences sponsored by the ABA, the CBA, the Association of Corporate Counsel, the Ontario Bar Association, the BC Bar Association, Federated Press and Insight. His articles have been published by these organisations and by various other publications including Canadian Business Law Reports, Global Competition Review, Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, Mergers and Acquisitions in Canada and CCH Commercial Times. He has also co-authored the competition law chapter in Doing Business In Canada and a chapter on mergers in Fundamentals of Canadian Competition Law.

Tony is listed in a wide range of reports and surveys as one of Canada’s leading competition law lawyers. These publications include Global Competition Review; Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business; The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers; Practical Law Company’s Cross-border Competition Handbook and Global Counsel Competition Law Handbook; and Legal Media Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Competition and Antitrust Lawyers.