Dany Assaf

About

Dany is an author and globally recognized lawyer with deep and broad international business experience advising and helping businesses grow worldwide. Dany specializes in competition and foreign investment law and policy, having worked on some of the largest and most complex global and Canadian mergers and investigations over the past 25 years. He is also a member of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section’s Thought Leadership in Antitrust Law and Academia Task Force.

Dany’s international business experience includes opening the first offices for a major Canadian law firm in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. Dany also serves on the board of Unity Health, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame, The Toronto Club and is former President of the Canadian Club of Toronto.

Dany has taught and lectured on competition and foreign investment law at major Canadian universities and written and been a commentator in almost all major Canadian media platforms including the Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, the National Post newspapers and CBC, BNN and CTV television networks.

Dany and his wife Lisa also co-founded the annual Fast In The 6 event held in Toronto bringing Canadians of all backgrounds together to celebrate its motto: Diversity. Unity Prosperity., in addition to being involved in many community initiatives, he is also the author of the books, “Say Please and Thank You & Stand In Line: One Man’s Story of What Makes Canada Special, and How to Keep It that Way”, and “Everybody’s Business: How to Ensure Canadian Prosperity Through the Twenty-First Century”.

Dany has his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Alberta and his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto.