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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).


Client Work

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

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

  • University of Victoria, BA (Economics), 2018, with distinction
  • University of Toronto, MA (Economics), 2021
  • University of Toronto, JD, 2021

Bar Admissions

  • Ontario, 2022