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Name: Melanie Aitken
Current position: Co-head, Competition, Antitrust
& Foreign Investment, Bennett Jones (US) LLP
Key dates:
» 2013: establishes U.S. presence of Bennett
Jones in current role
» 2008-2012: serves as Canadian commissioner
of competition
» 2006-2008: serves as senior deputy
commissioner of competition, mergers
» 2003-2005: litigation and antitrust partner,
Bennett Jones LLP
» 2001-2003: senior counsel, Department of
Justice Canada
» 1994 – 2002: litigation partner, Davies Ward
Phillips & Vineberg LLP
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