Alysha Pannu is an associate in Osler’s Competition/Antitrust, Foreign Investment, and International Trade Group, focusing on competition/antitrust and foreign investment matters.
Alysha Pannu advises clients on all aspects of competition law, including merger review, abuse of dominance and compliance matters. Alysha has extensive experience working on complex and high-profile merger transactions, advising clients on potentially anti-competitive business practices, and providing strategic advice to clients regarding investigations and other compliance matters under the Competition Act. She also regularly provides advice to clients on marketing/advertising law matters.
In her foreign investment review practice, Alysha advises clients on national security, net benefit and cultural sector reviews under the Investment Canada Act.
Prior to joining Osler, Alysha worked at another Canadian law firm. She also worked at the Mergers Directorate of the Canadian Competition Bureau where she reviewed high-profile mergers under the Competition Act.
Alysha serves in leadership roles in both the Canadian Bar Association and the American Bar Association. She is Vice-Chair of the Unilateral Conduct Committee of the Antitrust Law Section of the American Bar Association and is Chair of the Canadian Bar Association Competition Law Section's Young Lawyers Committee.
Areas of Expertise
Representative Work
- Béton Provincial
Béton Provincial in its acquisition of CRH Canada Group Inc.
- Fusion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Fusion Pharmaceuticals in its acquisition by AstraZeneca
- iCON Infrastructure
iCON Infrastructure in its investment in QSL
Béton Provincial in its acquisition of CRH Canada Group Inc.
Fusion Pharmaceuticals in its acquisition by AstraZeneca
iCON Infrastructure in its investment in QSL
- Quebecor Inc. and Videotron Ltd., as competition counsel, in the sale of Freedom Mobile Inc. by Shaw Communications to Quebecor, in connection with the proposed acquisition of Shaw by Rogers Communications Inc.
- Competition counsel to Tervita Corporation in its merger with SECURE Energy Services Inc. to create a combined company with an implied total enterprise value of $2.3 billion.
- Canadian counsel to Allergan plc., a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company, regarding all competition law matters and filings in its acquisition by AbbVie Inc. for US$63 billion (The Deal Awards 2020 Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech Deal of the Year)
- Bristol-Myers Squibb, as Canadian antitrust counsel, in its US$74-billion acquisition of Celgene Corp.
- MacEwen Petroleum Inc. in connection with its acquisition of the Quickie retail gas and convenience store business.
- Leyou Technologies Holdings (and its Canadian operating subsidiary Digital Extremes) in regard to the offer by Tencent Holdings Ltd. of China to buy HKSE-listed Leyou in an all-cash deal, valuing the company at up to HKD11.61 billion (US$1.5 billion).
- Fiserv, Inc., in its acquisition of First Data in a transaction valued at approximately US$22 billion, to create a leading payments and financial technology provider.
- Stone Canyon Industries Holdings LLC and Kissner Group Holdings, as Canadian counsel, in their US$3.2-billion agreement to acquire K+S Aktiengesellschaft’s North and South American salt business, including Morton Salt and Windsor Salt.
- Mylan N.V. in its agreement with Pfizer Inc. to combine with Upjohn, Pfizer’s off-patent branded and generic established medicines business, creating a new global pharmaceutical company, Viatris Inc.
- Tiffany & Co. in its US$15.8-billion sale to LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, a global luxury jewelry company.
- Signify, as Canadian antitrust counsel in connection with its $1.4-billion acquisition of the lighting business of Eaton Corporation.
- Premium Brands Holdings Corporation, as competition counsel, in its $1-billion acquisition, together with a coalition of Mi’kmaq First Nations, of Clearwater Seafoods Incorporated.
Latest Insights
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Report Jun 28, 2024
The amended Canadian Competition Act: what businesses need to know
Following a series of high-profile amendments aimed at strengthening Canada’s competition law regime culminating in royal assent for Bill C-59 on...
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Osler Update Dec 18, 2023
Important changes to the Competition Act, including the abuse of dominance provisions, now in effect
On December 15, 2023, Bill C-56 received royal assent. The bill substantially expands Canada’s monopolization law as set out in the abuse of...
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Osler Update Oct 17, 2023
It ended before it began: first private party sought leave to bring an ‘abuse of dominance’ application under the Competition Act
Just two weeks after applying for leave to the Competition Tribunal seeking a remedial order under the Competition Act “abuse of dominance”...
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Osler Update Sep 28, 2023
Bill to amend the Competition Act introduced in Parliament
On September 21, the Government of Canada introduced the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act, which includes the proposed amendments to the...
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Speaking and Writing
Speaking Engagements
CBA Competition Law Fall Conference
Moderator, “Remedial Training: Remedying Remedies”, October 27, 2023
ABA Antitrust Law Section’s Unilateral Conduct Committee and CBA Competition Law Section’s Young Lawyers Committee
Moderator, “A Primer on the Amendments to Canada’s Abuse of Dominance Provisions”, December 2, 2022
Humber College Global Business Management Postgraduate Program
Speaker, “Law of International Business Transactions”, Fall 2022
Canadian Bar Association Competition Law Section’s Young Lawyers Committee
Moderator, “Incorporating Technology into Your Competition Practice”, March 1, 2022
Canadian Bar Association Competition Law Section’s Young Lawyers Committee
Moderator, “When Competition and Labour Markets Intersect”, May 15, 2020
Canadian Bar Association Competition Law Section Competition Law Section’s Young Lawyers Committee
Moderator, “Career Counselling 101: The Business of Law”, November 14, 2019
Published Work
- Co-author, Information Exchanges and Related Risks: A Jurisdictional Guide (Canada Chapter), Concurrences Antitrust Publications and Events
Credentials
Education
- University of Ottawa, J.D. (cum laude)
- Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, MA
- University of Ottawa, B Ss. (magna cum laude)
Languages
- English
Professional Affiliations
- Canadian Bar Association, Chair of the Competition Law and Foreign Investment Review Section’s Young Lawyers Committee
- American Bar Association, Vice-Chair of the Section of Antitrust Law’s Unilateral Conduct Committee
