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About Isaac

Isaac advises on all aspects of competition law, including merger review, abuse of dominance, joint ventures and strategic alliances, marketing and distribution practices, cartel investigations and regulatory compliance. He also advises on foreign investment merger review under the Investment Canada Act.

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Representative matters in which Isaac has been involved include:

  • Paramount Skydance on its proposed US$110-billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery

  • CenterGate Capital on its investment in Canadian Dental Labs

  • Moody Corporation on the sale of Analytics Learning Solutions and the Canadian Securities Institute to Fitch Learning

  • GMS Inc. on its acquisition of the assets of Peridot Supply

  • GMS Inc. on its US$5.5-billion acquisition by The Home Depot

  • Eagers Automotive on its acquisition of a 65% ownership interest in CanadaOne Auto based on an enterprise value of C$2.5-billion

  • Wabtec Corporation on its US$1.78-billion acquisition of Evident's Inspection Technologies division

  • Novo Holdings and Novo Nordisk in connection with Novo Holdings' US$16.5-billion acquisition of Catalent, Inc. and the subsequent acquisition of three Catalent facilities by Novo Nordisk

  • Canadian counsel to CC Capital on its US$250-million investment in The Westaim Corp. and strategic combination for the creation of a new integrated insurance and asset management platform

  • Royal Bank of Canada on its C$13.5-billion acquisition of HSBC's Canadian business

  • Bell Media Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of BCE Inc., on its C$410-million acquisition of the Canadian business of OUTFRONT Media Inc.

  • Arclin Canada on its acquisition of RG Dispersants, a producer of specialty dispersants and surface-active products

  • Cox Enterprises on its acquisition of Greenhill Produce

  • HanesBrand Inc. on its US$4.4-billion definitive merger agreement with Gildan Activewear Inc., under which Gildan will acquire HanesBrand to create a global basic apparel leader

  • Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd. on its C$120-million sale of Princeton Lumber Mill to Gorman Bros Lumber Ltd.

  • World Wide Technology (WWT) on its US$1.3-billion acquisition of Softchoice Corporation

  • TowerBrook Capital Partners on its acquisition of CBTS from altafiber (formerly doing business as Cincinnati Bell)

Professional Activities

Isaac serves as an executive member of the Corporate Counsel and Compliance Committee for the Canadian Bar Association's Competition Law and Foreign Investment Review Section and as a young lawyer representative on the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the American Bar Association's Antitrust Law Section.

Education

Admitted to the Ontario Bar – 2023
JD, University of Ottawa – 2022
BA (Economics), York University – 2019

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