Chris Hersh
Partner, Canadian Head of Antitrust and Competition
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
Related services and key industries
Related services
- Antitrust and competition
- Automotive
- Cartels and antitrust investigations
- Corporate, M&A and securities
- Merger control
- Risk advisory
Key industry sectors
Biography
Chris Hersh is a business law partner based in Toronto and the Canadian head of our antitrust and competition practice. Chris provides strategic counsel to clients on all aspects of competition law, including mergers and acquisitions, criminal matters, abuse of dominance, marketing and advertising, as well as pricing and distribution issues.
He also regularly works with international clients to obtain approvals under the "net benefit," national security and cultural sector review provisions of the Investment Canada Act. In addition to his transactional and regulatory practice, Chris has an active competition litigation practice and acts for clients involved in matters before the Competition Tribunal, trans-border criminal investigations/prosecutions, as well as price-fixing class actions.
In addition to his practice, Chris regularly writes and speaks in Canada and abroad on all aspects of competition. Chris has served as an adjunct professor at the Western University Law School and as a guest lecturer at the Osgoode Hall Law School LL.M. and Queen's University economics program. Additionally, Chris is active in the CBA Competition Law Section (having chaired the Competition Litigation and Legislative Policy committees), the ABA Antitrust Section and the IBA Competition (having been the Canadian representative to the International Bar Association's working group on European private enforcement of competition law and co-chair of the Private Enforcement Working Group).
Professional experience
Collapse allLL.B., Osgoode Hall Law School, 1998
B.A. (Hons), Lakehead University, 1995
- Ontario 2000
- Chambers Canada, Nationwide: Competition/Antitrust, Chambers and Partners, 2016-2024
- Chambers Global, Canada: Competition/Antitrust, Chambers and Partners, 2006-2024
- Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, 2023-2024: recommended in Competition Law
- Best Lawyers in Canada: Competition/Antitrust, 2015-2022
- Martindale Hubbell, Distinguished™, Rating High ethical standing, 2021
- Who's Who Legal: Future Leader, Competition, 2021
- Global Competition Review (GCR100): Highly recommended, 2011
- Lexpert Rising Star, 2010
- Canadian Bar Association
- American Bar Association, Antitrust Law Section
- International Bar Association
- Ontario Bar Association
Insights
Competition Act amendments expand opportunities for private litigation
Publication | August 16, 2024
Competitive edge: Recent amendments to the Canadian Competition Act
Webinar | August 15, 2024
Competition Bureau moves to address new law on environmental claims and greenwashing
Publication | July 29, 2024
Client work
Investment fund acquisition of common shares of a coal mining company
December 01, 2022
Yamana Gold Inc. agrees to US$4.8bn cash-and-shares offer
November 21, 2022