 Bennett Jones Education University of Victoria, BA (Economics), 2018, with distinction University of Toronto, MA (Economics), 2021 University of Toronto, JD, 2021 Bar Admissions Ontario, 2022 Overview Kolding Larson advises clients on all aspects of competition law, including merger review, misleading advertising, abuse of dominance and other regulatory matters. Kolding has experience working on criminal and civil investigations under the Competition Act (including complying with section 11 orders under the Competition Act) and on complex, high-profile merger transactions (including complying with supplementary information requests (SIRs)). Additionally, Kolding advises clients in connection with complex competition class action matters. Kolding also advises clients on all aspects of foreign investment reviews under the Investment Canada Act. Prior to joining Bennett Jones, Kolding worked at the National Hockey League Players' Association, where he assisted with professional hockey players' salary arbitration cases. Kolding later summered and articled with the firm before joining as an associate in 2022. Kolding is an active member of the Canadian Bar Association (Competition Law and Foreign Investment Review Section) and the American Bar Association (Antitrust Law Section). Experience • SLB in its US$8-billion acquisition of ChampionX • Plains All American Pipeline in its C$5.15-billion sale of its NGL business to Keyera • Canadian Natural Resources Limited in its US$6.5-billion acquisition of Chevron's Alberta assets, including the Athabasca Oil Sands Project and Duvernay sale assets • Heartland Generation in its C$658-million sale to TransAlta • Verillium Health in its acquisition of Wellwise by Shoppers from Shoppers Drug Mart • G2S2 Capital, under its banner Armco Alberta, in its acquisition of Bow Valley Square, an iconic four-tower, LEED Platinum-certified office complex in the heart of downtown Calgary • Acted as Canadian legal counsel to Lynx Software Technologies, a portfolio company of OceanSound Partners, in connection with the acquisition of Core Avionics & Industrial • Medline Industries Inc. in its acquisition of Sinclair Dental. • Morrison Hershfield Group Inc. in its acquisition by Stantec Consulting Ltd. • SECURE Energy Services Inc. in its $1.075-billion asset sale of waste management facilities pursuant to a divesture order by the Competition Tribunal. • Anthem Properties Group, in its acquisition of The Cedarglen Group Inc. and the formation of Anthem Cedarglen Developments Limited Partnership. • Seagen Inc., in its US$43-billion acquisition by Pfizer Inc. • CoolIT Systems Inc., a leading provider of scalable liquid cooling solutions, in its US$270-million acquisition by KKR. • Cresco Labs Inc. in its US$2-billion acquisition of Columbia Care Inc., making Cresco the second-largest cannabis producer and retailer in the U.S. at the time of the transaction. • PI Financial Corp. and Echelon Wealth Partners Inc. and their affiliates in their merger to create a leading investment advisory, wealth management, and capital markets firm. • Nippon Steel Corporation in its $1.15-billion investment in Elk Valley Resources Ltd., a steelmaking coal business to be spun-out as an independent public company from Teck Resources Ltd. |