Don't forget about Canada: new anti-cartel regime keeping up with the US | Practical Law

Don't forget about Canada: new anti-cartel regime keeping up with the US | Practical Law

This chapter offers a comparative examination of Canada's anti-cartel regime and that of the US, with a particular focus on each regime's criminal anti-cartel provisions, penalties on conviction, defences available to per se charges, exclusion for exports, private rights of action for violations of criminal anti-trust provisions, immunity/leniency programmes, and non-criminal enforcement in respect of agreements among competitors.

Don't forget about Canada: new anti-cartel regime keeping up with the US

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Don't forget about Canada: new anti-cartel regime keeping up with the US

by Robert S Russell and Denes A Rothschild, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Law stated as at 01 Jul 2013Canada (Common Law), USA (National/Federal)
This chapter offers a comparative examination of Canada's anti-cartel regime and that of the US, with a particular focus on each regime's criminal anti-cartel provisions, penalties on conviction, defences available to per se charges, exclusion for exports, private rights of action for violations of criminal anti-trust provisions, immunity/leniency programmes, and non-criminal enforcement in respect of agreements among competitors.