In addition to his practice, Dany has been an adjunct professor of law at the University of Western Ontario and has written and presented extensively on competition and foreign investment topics, including in leading newspapers and publications such as the Antitrust Law Journal and Antitrust Magazine. Dany has also co-authored Competition and Antitrust Law: Canada and The United States (4th edition) for LexisNexis Butterworths (2014), which was recently cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in a leading competition case (a case he also advised on). He authored a leading foreign investment study - Foreign Direct Investment and the National Interest: A Way Forward, Institute for Research on Public Policy, no. 40, April 2013. Dany also served as an associate editor of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Magazine. Dany has also provided testimony on proposed amendments to the Competition Act before the Standing Committee of the Canadian Senate on Banking, Trade and Commerce and on the Investment Canada Act to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.

Dany also has a Middle East advisory practice, advising clients in both the private and the public sectors on Middle East investment and capital market matters. He is also a co-founder and instructor of the inaugural Islamic Finance course as part of the Executive Programs at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and published on a variety of related topics.

Dany is a past president and a member of the board of the Canadian Club of Toronto. He is a fellow of the College of Fellows of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He is also involved in a variety of social, cultural and charitable initiatives, including recently the City of Toronto’s Canada 150 External Advisory Committee. Dany speaks both English and Arabic fluently.