On February 11, 2021, the Honourable Omar Alghabra, Minister of Transport, announced that the Government of Canada has approved the proposed acquisition of Transat A.T. Inc. by Air Canada.

Dentons advised Transport Canada in the Government of Canada’s public interest assessment process regarding the transaction, with a team led by Michael Ledgett (transactional) and Adam S. Goodman (competition and regulatory), that also included Ken Kraft (insolvency), Robert Quon (aviation), Suraj Rammohan (transactional) and Ora Wexler (securities).

For more information, see the Government of Canada’s official news release here.

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