Sandy Walker | Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP

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Sandy Walker LL.M., LL.B., B.A., Partner

Sandy Walker has extensive experience in competition and antitrust law matters and is recognized as one of the country’s leading Investment Canada Act specialists. Her practice focuses on securing regulatory approvals for mergers from the Competition Bureau, Investment Canada and other regulatory agencies. She also advises on compliance issues relating to pricing, distribution and trade practices.

Sandy represents clients in an array of diverse industries such as mining, financial services, oil and gas, automotive, media, food and beverage, manufacturing, transportation and retail.

An active member of the Canadian Bar Association, Sandy is Vice-Chair of the Mergers Committee, Competition Law Section and is the former Chair of the Foreign Investment Review Committee. She is also an active participant in American Bar Association’s International and Antitrust Law Sections and is a regular speaker at ABA, CBA and other conferences.

Sandy is recognized by Chambers Global 2012: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business as one of Canada’s leading lawyers for Competition/Antitrust: Investment Canada. She has authored numerous articles on competition law and foreign investment review (including state-owned investors), as well as a book on trade law. For several years, Sandy was also an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, lecturing on European Union competition and trade law.

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Representative Work

Counsel to Katz Group Canada Inc. in sale of a large portion of its independent banner and franchise business to McKesson Corporation

Counsel to BP Canada on a US$1.67 billion agreement to sell its Canadian natural gas liquids business to Plains Midstream Canada

Canadian counsel to US Gold Corporation on its acquisition by statutory plan of arrangement of Minera Andes Inc. with a transaction value at the time of closing of approximately CDN $1.4 billion for the combined company, which was renamed McEwen Mining Inc. (NYSE; TSX: MUX), 2012

Counsel to Capital Power Income L.P. on its $1.1 billion acquisition by Atlantic Power Corporation

Counsel to Bridgewater Systems Corporation on its $211 million acquisition by Amdocs Limited by way of plan of arrangement

Counsel to Stillwater Mining Company in connection with its US$487 million acquisition of Peregrine Metals Ltd. by way of a plan of arrangement

Counsel to Teledyne Technologies Incorporated on its $337 million acquisition of DALSA Corporation

Counsel to Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines Limited with respect to its $4.9 billion acquisition by Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.

Acted as Canadian Counsel to Aon Corporation in respect of its acquisition of Hewitt Associates, Inc.

Counsel to Perilya Ltd. on its $184 million take-over bid for GlobeStar Mining Corporation

Acted for PetroChina International Investment Company Limited on the competition and foreign investment review aspects of its $1.9 billion acquisition of interests in two projects of Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. (2010)

Acted for Tata Motors Limited in its acquisition of the Jaguar and Land Rover businesses of the Ford Motor Company (2009)

Acted for NRDC Equity Partners in connection with its acquisition of Hudson’s Bay Company (2008)

Acted for Altagas Income Trust in connection with its $590 million acquisition of Taylor NGL L.P. (2007)

Acted for Apax Partners, as Canadian counsel, in a US$7.75 billion acquisition with OMERS Capital Partners of Thomson Learning Higher Education Assets (2007)

Acted for Harbinger Capital Partners in its acquisition of Calpine Power Income Fund (2007)

Acted for Thomas Weisel Partners Group Inc. in its acquisition of Westwind Partners Inc. (2007)

Acted for BASF Canada in connection with the global acquisition by the BASF Group of the construction chemicals business of Degussa AG (2006)

Acted for The Clorox Company in its US$126 million acquisition of Colgate-Palmolive Company's Canadian household bleach brands (2006)

Acted for INEOS Group Limited in its proposed US$9 billion acquisition of the Innovene Group of Companies (2005)

Acted for Bertelsmann AG in connection with its music recording business joint venture with Sony Corporation (2004)

Acted for RR Donnelley in its US$6 billion merger with Moore Wallace (2004)

Acted for Duke Energy Corp. in connection with its acquisition of Westcoast Energy Inc. (2002)

Publications

"Modest Steps to Reform Canada’s Foreign Investment Review Process", Focus on Foreign Investment Review, May 2012

Focus on China (Chinese) - 聚焦中国 - 2012 二月

Focus on China, February 2012

"Competition and Foreign Investment in Canada: Taking Stock of 2011 and Looking Ahead to 2012", Focus on Competition | Antitrust | Foreign Investment, January 2012

"New Guidance on Hostile Transactions", Focus on Competition | Antitrust, August 2011

"Recent Canadian M&A Activity Shines Spotlight on Foreign Investment Approval Regime", Global Business Magazine, August 2011

“Draft Revised Merger Enforcement Guidelines Issued”, Focus on Competition | Antitrust, July 2011

“Commissioner of Competition Challenges Air Canada and United Continental Joint Venture”, Focus on Competition | Antitrust, July 2011

"Foreign Investment Review in Canada - After Potash", Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP, May 2011

"Refusals to Deal Under Canada's Competition Act", presented at the ABA Section of International Law conference, April 2011

"Climate Change for Foreign Investors in Canada? Taking the Temperature of Foreign Investment Review in 2011", presented at the ABA Section of International Law conference, April 2011

"Competition Bureau Issues New Guidance on Merger Review", Focus on Competition | Antitrust, November 2010

"Recent Developments in Foreign Investment Review in Canada: Much Fanfare, Much Furor...Much Ado About Nothing?" presented at the CBA Competition Law conference, September 2010

"Canada's Draft Service Standards for Merger Review: Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est La Même Chose?", The CPI Antitrust Journal, August 2010

"Update on Foreign Investment in Canada", Focus on Competition | Antitrust, August 2010

Co-author of chapter on foreign investment review in Competition Act & Commentary, published by Butterworths, 2010 edition

Editor of chapter, “Statutory History and Institutional Overview”, Competition Law Fundamentals Handbook, published by the CBA, Competition Law Section, 2007 and 2010

“Draft Investment Canada Regulations Released: Details on National Security Regime and New Review Threshold”, The Competitor (Stikeman Elliott), July 2009

“Amending the Investment Canada Act: An Assessment of the Government’s Response to the Wilson Report”, Canadian Competition Record (March 2009)

Co-author of “Answers to FAQs on Foreign Investment Review in Canada” in The 2009 Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory and The 2009 LEXPERT/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, January 2009

“Canada to Scrutinize Foreign State Investors”, Financier Worldwide, April 2008

“Foreign State Investors Face Greater Scrutiny in Canada”, International Antitrust Bulletin, Vol. No. 1, Issue No. 2008, published by the American Bar Association, Antitrust Section, International Committee, April 2008

Co-author of “Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment: What’s next for Canada?”, M&A Update (Stikeman Elliott), March 2008

“New Guidelines for Canadian Investments by Foreign State-Owned Enterprises”, M&A Update, February 2008

“Canada Takes a Stand”, International Financial Law Review, February 2008

“State-Owned Investors Face Greater Scrutiny in Canada”, The Competitor, December 2007

“State Investors: On the Rise and Under Scrutiny”, M&A Update, November 2007

“Canada Earmarks Funds to Advance Trade and Investment and Considers Foreign Investment Law Amendments”, North American Free Trade & Investment Report, March 31, 2007

“Canada Considers Investment Canada Act Amendments: Potential Focus on Foreign State-Owned Investors”, The Competitor, December 2006

“Canadian Merger Review: Key Distinctions From U.S. Law”, Access Antitrust: A Newsletter of the Antitrust Committee, Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, Fall 2004

Co-author with Paul Collins of Competition Law chapter on Merger Review in Canada, Mergers and Acquisition Yearbook 2004, International Financial Law Review, February 2004

“Experiments in Notification: Lessons from the European Union”, Canadian Competition Record, Fall 2003

“Competition Act Amendments – Bureau to Issue Discussion Paper on the Next Round”, The Competitor, June 2003

“Changes to Fees, Thresholds and Service Standards Will Significantly Affect Businesses Dealing with the Competition Bureau”, The Competitor, April 2003

“Update on Amendments to the Competition Act, Developments Related to Bill C-23 and Proposals for the Next Round of Reforms”, The Competitor, June 2002

Co-author with Lawson Hunter and Susan Hutton of the Canada chapter on Antitrust/Competition, Mergers & Acquisitions Yearbook 2002, International Financial Law Review, 2002

“Competition and Antitrust, A Legal Guide”, International Financial Law Review 2001, 2001, co-author with Lawson Hunter

“Canada Introduces Amendments to Competition Act”, The Competitor, April 2001

“Northern Exposure: Prosecution of U.S. Residents for Canadian Competition Act Offences”, Federated Press 1999

Co-editor of the Canada chapter in and author of the abuse of dominant position section therein, Antitrust Law and Trade Regulation (Matthew Bender & Co., Inc.), 1999

“Bureau Wades into Intellectual Property Debate: Canada’s Watchdog Sees its Guidelines as Means of Reducing Uncertainty in Business Community”, Computing Canada, September 1999

Editor of Cases and Materials on European Community Law prepared for the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 1994, 1996 and 1999

Environmental Protection Versus Trade Liberalisation: Finding the Balance (An Examination of the Legality of Environmental Regulation Under International Trade Law Regimes), Publications des Facultés Universitaires St-Louis, Brussels, Belgium, 1993

Teaching Roles

Sandy has lectured on competition and foreign investment review law at a number of law faculties and for several years, was an adjunct professor of European Union law at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law

Prior Speaking Engagements

"The Policy Framework for Chinese Investment in Canada", China Institute Conference on Public Policy Dimensions of Chinese Investment in Canada, Calgary, May 4, 2012

"Post Lehman: Will Financial Markets Be Regulated through the Back Door of Competition Policy?" at the American Bar Association Section of International Law, New York City, April 20, 2012

"Fundamentals of Canadian Competition Law", ACC - Canadian Corporate Counsel Institute, March 27, 2012

"Is There a New Economic Nationalism?", Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting, Denver, October 25, 2011

"Foreign Investment Review in Canada", Association of Canadian General Counsel (ACGC), September 23, 2011

"The Policy Framework for Chinese Investment in Canada", China Institute Conference on Public Policy Dimensions of Chinese Investment in Canada, Calgary, June 10, 2011

"Current Legal Issues in Canadian Mergers and Acquisitions", presented to ACC Ontario Chapter and Fraser Milner Casgrain, May 13, 2011

Chair of the Canadian Bar Association's Competition Law "Spring Forum 2011: Focus on Civil", May 3, 2011

Co-Chair and Moderator, Panel on "The New Gold Rush - The Race for the World's Resources", ABA Section of International Law Spring Meeting, April 8, 2011

Co-Chair and Speaker, Panel on "Size Matters: When Do Powerful Firms Attract Antitrust and Regulatory Scrutiny and Sanctions?", ABA Section of International Law Spring Meeting, April 7, 2011

Appeared before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (Canada) to speak on the review of the Investment Canada Act (at the Committee's Invitation), March 24, 2011

"Investment Canada after BHP/Potash", teleseminar, ABA Section of International Law, December 16, 2010

"Foreign Investment Review in Canada: The Uncertain Road", 2010 Annual Fall Competition Law Conference, Gatineau, Quebec, September 30, 2010

"Hostile Takeover Bids Across the Canada-US Border", ABA Section of International Law, September 22, 2010

"Investment Canada Act: New Law & Policy - State Owned- Enterprises", CBA’s Foreign Investment Review Committee, Toronto, June 4, 2010

"New Developments in Mergers, Cartels and Distribution Practices in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Beyond", ABA Business Law Section, 2010 Spring Meeting, April 23, 2010

"20th Century Economic Nationalism or Essential Security in the 21st Century – An Analysis of Recent Developments in Foreign Investment Review Laws in Canada”, paper presented at the American Bar Association, Section of International Law meeting, Washington DC, April 16, 2009

“Wary Hosts/Uncertain Guests: A Canadian Perspective on Foreign State Investors”, paper presented at the American Bar Association, Business Law Section Meeting, Frankfurt, Germany, May 29, 2008

“State-Owned Investment - On the Rise & Under Fire”, paper presented at the Canadian Bar Association Annual Competition Law Conference, October 2007

“Price Discrimination and Promotional Allowances Under the Competition Act”, paper presented at The Canadian Institute Conference, March 2007

“Refusals to License Intellectual Property in Canada”, paper presented at the Ontario Bar Association conference “Where Competition Law and Intellectual Property Meet”, September 2006.