181 Bay St, Suite 4400, Brookfield Pl, Bay Wellington Twr, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1986 (ON)
James Musgrove is co-leader of McMillan’s Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment Practice Group, and active in its advertising/consumer protection practice. He serves in the Leadership of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law as Co-Chair of The Pricing Conduct Committee and past member of Council. James a two time GCR award winner: for Behavioural Matter of the Year, 2014 for his successful defence of Mastercard; and for Cartel Matter of the Year, 2022 for his successful defence of Micron. He was named 2015 advertising and marketing lawyer of the year, Toronto, by Best Lawyers. He is recognized as a leading competition and advertising lawyer by various rating organizations, including Chamber Global, GCR, Lexpert, Best Lawyers and Who's Who Legal, amongst others. Leading cases include representation of Mastercard, NutraSweet, Volkswagen, Suncor, Polaroid, West Fraser, Micron and Meta, amongst others. James practises in the areas of competition, antitrust, foreign investment and marketing law. He advises on cartel, merger, distribution, investment review, foreign corrupt practices and misleading advertising amongst other issues. James makes regular representations and submissions to the Competition Bureau. He has experience in a wide variety of industries.
On May 20, 2015, BCE Inc. (BCE) and Rogers Communications Inc. (Rogers) completed their acquisition of GLENTEL Inc. (GLENTEL), a Canadian-based multi-carrier mobile products distributor.
