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Omar Wakil

Partner 

Omar Wakil
Direct:
416.865.7635   
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Fax:
416.865.7380 
 
 
 

Omar is repeatedly recognized as a leading competition lawyer in Canada.

Practice

Omar Wakil is a partner in the Competition and Antitrust Group and chair of the Foreign Investment Review Group.

In connection with his competition law practice, Omar advises domestic and international clients on all aspects of competition law. In particular, he provides strategic advice to firms involved in mergers, joint ventures, strategic alliances, cartel investigations and unilateral conduct. He is the author of the Annotated Competition Act, speaks frequently on competition law issues at universities and professional conferences in Canada and abroad and is the immediate past-chair of the Mergers Committee of the Canadian Bar Association's National Competition Law Section. Omar is widely regarded as one of Canada’s leading competition lawyers and in 2008 Global Competition Review named him one of the world’s 40 leading competition lawyers under the age of 40.

In connection with his foreign investment review practice, Omar advises international clients in Investment Canada Act reviews by the Investment Review Division and the Cultural Sector Investment Review directorate. In particular, he acts for numerous sovereign wealth funds (SWF) and was the lead regulatory counsel on the first acquisition by a SWF of a Canadian business following the introduction of the current rules on foreign investments by state owned enterprises.

Omar works with clients active in a wide range of business sectors, including chemicals, consumer products, energy, financial services, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals and transportation.

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Bar Admissions

Solicitor, England and Wales, 2003
Ontario, 1996

Education

EC Competition Law, Postgraduate Diploma, 2004
King’s College London

LLM (European Union competition law), 1996
Stockholm University

LLB, 1994
University of Toronto

BA, 1991
University of Western Ontario