Biography • Who's Who Legal Canada: Competition

Mr Goldman is co-chair of Blakes competition, antitrust and foreign investment group. His practice covers all aspects of Canadian competition law, including domestic and international mergers, abuse of dominance, cartels, civil reviewable matters and counselling on trade practices, as well as representation in foreign investment reviews under the Investment Canada Act.

Mr Goldman is a former head of the Canadian Competition Bureau. He is special adviser to the competition committee of the business and industry advisory committee to the OECD, a member of the long range planning committee of the American Bar Association section of antitrust law, and former co-chair of the section's international task force, and a vice-chair of the ICC task force on the International Competition Network.

Mr Goldman is recognised as a "star individual" for competition law in Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2012; this highest ranking is one he has held for a number of years. He is also recognised in PLC Which Lawyer? 2012, Law Business Research's The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers 2012, The 2012 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, The 2012 Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Litigation Lawyers in Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2012, and Legal Media Group's Guide to Leading Practitioners: China 2011.

The following are some of the clients for whom Mr Goldman's representation in recent years is publicly known: Bell Canada, BHP Billiton, CTVglobemedia, General Electric, Genworth Financial, Maple Group Acquisition Corporation, Merck, Microsoft Corporation, Nestlé SA, Samsung, and Yellow Pages Group.