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Catherine Pawluch

Partner, Toronto

Catherine A. Pawluch is a partner in the Toronto office of Davis LLP. She has extensive experience in pre-merger approvals, competition law and foreign investment review. Catherine has advised Canadian, U.S., Chinese and other international corporations across a range of industries, including the transportation, energy and resources, manufacturing, retailing and consumer products sectors.

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Catherine has obtained Competition Act and Investment Canada Act clearances for numerous merger transactions.

In April 2009, Catherine was invited as a speaker at the Third Chinese Enterprises Outbound Investment Conference in Beijing, sponsored by the CCPIT and the Canada China Business Council. More than 800 Chinese enterprises with a "Go Global" mandate attended the Conference. Catherine made a presentation on Canada's new foreign investment law at the "Invest in Canada" seminar.

In January 2008, she travelled to Beijing and presented a briefing on Canada's new SOE guidelines to various Chinese State-owned enterprises targeting investments in Canada.

Catherine has been appointed to the board of directors of the Canada China Lawyers Foundation and is active in the Canada China Business Council. She also serves on the board of directors of The Canadian Foundation for Chinese Heritage Preservation.

Following the implementation of NAFTA, Catherine was invited as an expert in the field to participate on a trinational committee to harmonize liability laws and to create a uniform bill of lading for surface transportation in the three NAFTA countries.

Catherine has written extensively on foreign ownership restriction in various industry sectors.

She is an active member of the Canadian Bar Association's Foreign Investment Review Committee and has assisted in preparing submissions to the Government of Canada in connection with amendments to Canada's foreign investment laws.

 

Selected Experiences

Professional Associations & Activities

  • Co-Chair of the International Transportation Committee, American Bar Association, Section of International Law
  • Advisory Board, Canada-United States Law Institute
  • Former President, U.S. Transportation Lawyers Association
  • Former President, Canadian Transport Lawyers' Association
  • Board of Directors, Canada - China Lawyers Foundation
  • Board of Directors, Canadian Foundation for Chinese Heritage Preservation
  • Chartered Member, Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport
  • Past Vice-President, International Affairs, International Aviation Women's Association
  • Competition Law Section and National Air & Space Law Forum, Canadian Bar Association
  • Antitrust and International Law Sections and the Forum on Air and Space Law , American Bar Association
  • Member, Canada China Business Council

Publications

Recognition

  • Expert Guides: Guide to the World’s Leading Aviation Lawyers 2013
  • Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Transportation - Road & Rail), Most Frequently Recommended
  • Best Lawyers in Canada (Transportation Law), 2010 - Present
  • Who's Who Guide to the World's Leading Aviation Lawyers (Canada and International), 2010 - Present
  • Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Guide to the Top 100 Industry Specialists in Canada, 2006
  • Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada

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Toronto

Assistant

  • Suzanne Mathias, 416.369.5290

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  • LL.B., Osgoode Hall Law School, 1981
  • M.A., Economics, (Bronfman Fellowship), McGill University, 1979
  • B.A., (Gold Medallist), Laurentian University, 1976

View this lawyer's calls to the bar Called to the Bar

  • Ontario, 1983