Pauline Kennedy speaks on market definition at the CBA Competition Law fall conference

Amendments to Canada’s competition laws require businesses to understand and address expanded risks and new opportunities. At the 2024 Canadian Bar Association Competition Law fall conference, practitioners, corporate counsel, economists, enforcement officials, and policy experts will address the amendments and discuss how to interpret the revised competition laws.

Partner Pauline Kennedy will participate as a panelist in the Structural Presumptions Workshop “How to Calculate Concentration and Market Definition.” Dr. Kennedy and her co-panelists will review structural presumptions and concentration index levels in new amendments of Canada’s competition law regime; they will then address questions such as whether market definition will become the central battleground for merger cases, how similar structural concentration indices have been interpreted in the United States, and what the market definition debate looks like in recent enforcement cases. They will discuss various approaches to market definition and examine what lessons US enforcement/interpretation can offer Canada.

More information on the conference is available here.