GEORGE N. ADDY
Antitrust, Competition and Trade Practices
International Trade and Business Regulation

George Addy is the senior partner heading the firm's Competition Law and Trade Practices group. He obtained both a B.A. (1974) and an LL.B. (1977) from the University of Ottawa. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1979 and the Alberta Bar in 1999. Until the fall of 1989, he was in private practice in Ottawa representing both private and public sector clients including acting as outside counsel to the Competition Bureau in proceedings before the Restrictive Trade Practices Commission. In 1989, George joined the Competition Bureau as head of the Mergers Branch, a position he held until 1993 when he was appointed by Cabinet to head the Competition Bureau (the position is now known as "Commissioner of Competition"). George returned to the private sector in 1996 as Executive Vice President and Chief General Counsel with TELUS Corporation and its successor BCT.TELUS Communications Inc., where his responsibilities included Law, the Corporate Secretariat, Regulatory Affairs, Marketing Communications, Government Relations and Administrative Services. In 2002 George returned to private practice and joined Davies in August 2002.

As a leading expert in competition and antitrust law and head of Canada's competition agency, George has represented Canada internationally at bilateral and multilateral meetings. At the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), he was Chair of the Competition Law and Policy Working Party and was co-Chair of the OECD's Joint Trade and Competition Law Group.

George's practice covers all aspects of competition law and trade practices. This includes strategic advice and representation before competition authorities in Canada and abroad in relation to mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, abuse of dominance and other reviewable trade practice matters. He has been consulted by Canadian and foreign-based clients on the competition law aspects of major mergers in virtually every sector of the economy including the financial services, energy, communications, transportation, services, retail, food and agricultural sectors. George's practice also includes advice and representation in relation to the range of criminal matters under the Competition Act, Investment Canada matters and general administrative law. He has represented clients in numerous provincial and federal court proceedings as well as judicial inquiries. He has also acted as counsel to the Canadian Competition Bureau in proceedings before the Competition Tribunal and to the Attorney General of Canada in crimnal antitrust proceedings.
George is recognized as one of the most frequently recommended competition law practitioners in the Canadian LEXPERT Directory and is included in LEXPERT/American Lawyer's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. He also has been recognized as a leading competition law counsel in Law Business Research's Who's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers (2002) and was cited in Chambers' Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers 2002-2003 as a leading individual in competition/antitrust law.

He is a member of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and chairs its Policy Committee and is past chair of the Board's International Strategic Advisory Committee. He is also a Governor of the Canadian Unity Council and past Chair of its Audit Committee. George is a member of the CBA, ABA and IBA and is an active member of numerous committees dealing with sectoral, legal and business issues.
Fluently bilingual, George has spoken widely and published extensively in Canada, the United States and abroad on the subjects of competition law, trade practices and the interface between competition policy and trade policy. He is the co-author of the first Canadian loose-leaf service on competition law, Competition Law Service, published by Canada Law Book Limited. He has also made submissions and testified before House of Commons and Senate Committees on competition policy, financial services, communications, transport and other matters.