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Toronto, ON M5H 3C2
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Yana Ermak

Yana is an associate in the Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group. Yana advises Canadian and international clients on a wide variety of competition law matters, including pre-merger clearance, abuse of dominance, marketing and distribution practices, price fixing and compliance. Yana also has extensive experience in foreign investment review issues under the Investment Canada Act.

Yana has provided advice to clients in a wide range of industries, including pharmaceutical, manufacturing, retail, media and advertising and telecommunications.

Yana has been involved in a number of significant competition law matters, including:

  • Counsel to Pfizer Inc. in its US$68 billion acquisition of Wyeth
  • Counsel to Waste Management of Canada Corporation in connection with the amendment of the Competition Tribunal Order
  • Counsel to Vanguard Car Rental Holdings LLC in connection with its acquisition by Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company
  • Counsel to Goldcorp Inc. in its acquisition of mining assets from Barrick Gold Corporation
  • Counsel to Pfizer Inc. in its US$16.6 billion sale of Consumer Healthcare Business to Johnson & Johnson
  • Counsel to Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. and its partners in its acquisition of Chrysler
  • Counsel to Whirlpool Corporation in connection of its US$2.7 billion acquisition of Maytag Corporation
  • Counsel to companies implicated in price-fixing cartels
  • Counsel to companies in connection with the Bureau voluntary requests for information and section 11 orders 
Yana is the author of the Foreign Investment and Competition Law chapters (18 and 19) in the Manzer: Canada – U.S. Commercial Law Guide.  Yana has also co-authored a number of articles and papers regarding recent developments in competition law. Additionally, Yana is an active member in the National Competition Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association and the Antitrust Law Section of the American Bar Association. Since 2006, she has been a member of the organizing committee for the Canadian Bar Association’s Annual Fall Conference on Competition Law.

Prior to joining Cassels Brock, Yana practiced competition law at another major Toronto-based law firm.

Education

J.D., University of Toronto, 2002
B.A. (with Distinction), University of Toronto, 1995

Call to the bar

Ontario, 2003

Associations

  • American Bar Association (Antitrust Law Section)
  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Ontario Bar Association


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