On 2 March 2022, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense unconditionally cleared Microsoft’s $1bn acquisition of XandR (an online platform for the buying and selling of digital advertising). The deal was also cleared by the Cypriot Commission for the Protection of Competition in March 2022.
Does your merger trigger Canada’s “rebuttable structural presumption”?
This article, authored by CRA’s Ian Cass, provides a brief reference guide along with a visual tool to help assess whether a merger meets the prescribed market...

