Biography: Competition

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Martin Low is a partner in the competition group. His practice is focused on Canadian and international cartel, merger, and abuse of dominance matters.

Martin is a former senior general counsel at the Canadian Competition Bureau. He prosecuted the major international cartel cases of the 1990s (including vitamins, lysine, and citric acid conspiracies). He also conducted merger and dominance litigation in the Competition Tribunal in the banking, energy, transport and intellectual property sectors. Martin has appeared in all levels of court in Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada.

Since joining McMillan in 2000, Martin has represented international and Canadian corporations in the transportation, retail, chemicals, financial services, and high technology sectors in both cartel and merger matters in Canada and abroad.

He is a member of the Canadian Bar Association: past chair of the criminal matters committee; American Bar Association: vice-chair, transportation industry committee; international cartel task force; International Bar Association: co-chair, leniency working group.