Lawyer Profile
Julie A. Soloway
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Julie is Co-Chair of the Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group, widely regarded as one of the leading competition law practices in Canada and recently named Competition Regional Firm of the Year - Americas by Global Competition Review.
Julie is at the forefront of the most complex and high-profile Canadian and cross-border merger transactions. She is recognized as a Band 1 Competition lawyer in Chambers Canada and was previously named one of Canada's Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers by Canadian Lawyer Magazine. Global Competition Review lists Julie as one of the top Women in Antitrust globally, and in Chambers Global clients highlight that she is "very bright, experienced and makes the trickiest regulatory filings easy to understand with her practical and commercially-minded advice." She is co-founder of Canadian Women in Competition Law and co-author of the book: Leading the Way: Canadian Women in Law (LexisNexis).
Julie also has special expertise in the Investment Canada Act and the State-Owned Enterprise Guidelines, and has been successful in securing approvals for foreign investors in Canada's key industries, including technology, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, and financial services.
Julie brings clarity to complex competition law and Investment Canada Act challenges, and clients seek her counsel to achieve the best results for their business.
Paramount Skydance on its proposed US$110-billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery
Mubadala Capital on its C$4.7-billion going private acquisition of CI Financial Corp.
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. on the spin-off of its pork business into a separate public company, Canada Packers Inc.
Absolute Software Corporation on its US$870-million acquisition by Crosspoint Capital
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1995 (ON)