Steve Szentesi *
Associate Counsel
Steve Szentesi advises domestic and foreign business clients in a wide range of matters involving competition/antitrust law and foreign investment law. He advises individuals and organizations on how to comply with laws and regulations in these areas and also provides counsel to clients in civil proceedings and regulatory proceedings involving the Competition Bureau of Canada and other such enforcement bodies. He counsels clients in matters involving allegations such as price fixing, abuse of dominance, and misleading advertising, and he has worked on hundreds of domestic and cross-border competition law matters.
He has practised competition and international trade law at several leading Canadian and international business law firms including Lang Michener (Vancouver), Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg (Toronto) and Linklaters (London, U.K.). His academic work includes three years as adjunct professor of competition law at the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law. He also served as in-house competition law counsel for The Canadian Real Estate Association in Ottawa, one of Canada's largest single industry trade associations, during which he provided competition law and compliance advice to CREA and its approximately 100+ member real estate boards and associations across Canada. He has published widely in the competition law field for the past eleven years and is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and industry events. He has a particular interest in the application of Canadian competition law to trade and professional associations and is the co-author of a forthcoming book on competition law and associations: The Competition Law Guide for Associations in Canada (Carswell, 2011).
Contact
Direct Tel: 604-601-2047
Mobile: 778-867-5558
Email: sszentesi@hakemi.com
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
Agriculture, airlines, architectural woodworking, associations, broadcasting, cat food, computers, computer hardware, construction materials, copper mining, defence procurement, diamonds, direct marketing, dog food, energy, financial services, float plane airlines, forestry, gaming, gem polishing, gold mining, grain terminals, hedge funds, insurance, LCD monitors, manufacturing, media, mining, news wire services, online contests, online gaming, pet food, pharmacies, port terminal grain handling facilities, potash, printing, rail, real estate, real estate self-storage, real estate boards, real estate services, retail, retail books, satellite communications, silver mining, social media, software, stock exchange services, telecommunications, theatre exhibition and film distribution, trade associations, trailer leasing, transportation, vitamins and digital media.
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