Mark Warner joins Pilot Law as a Colleague

Pilot Law provides comprehensive legal services for developing resource businesses in the mining, energy and renewables sectors. Mark will provide international trade and investment law advice to natural resources clients on trade agreements, trade remedies, sanctions, export and import controls, anti-corruption, corporate social responsibility and compliance issues.

Mark Warner Invited to Speak to the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association of Canada

Mark Warner was invited to appear before the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association of Canada (APMA) Board of Directors at the Automotive News Canada Congress in Toronto. (February 16, 2017) Mr. Warner is a Canadian and U.S. lawyer who has practiced in Toronto, Washington, DC and New York and has advised governments on trade policy and trade negotiations and previously worked on trade and competition issues as counsel in the OECD Trade Directorate. Mr. Warner was Legal Director of the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development & Trade and led the Province’s legal team for the insolvency / restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler.   Mr. Warner also advised Ontario on trade and investment issues and disputes relating to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreements and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the negotiations of the Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).  He is co-author of a leading Canadian trade law treatise, has also published numerous articles and has been invited to speak at conferences around the world.

Mark Warner Served as a Panelist in the ELSA Moot Court Competition on Green Energy & WTO Law at Queen’s University

Mark Warner servedCc0Bv4gWAAEEujb as a panelist at the All-American Regional Round (AARR) of the 14th annual European Law Students’ Association (ELSA) Moot Court Competition (EMC2) on WTO Law. The Round was held at the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario March 3-5, 2016 and Mr. Warner was a panelist in the Grand Final, Semi-Final and Preliminary Rounds of pleadings. As Legal Director of the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development & Trade, Mr. Warner provided advice to the Government of Ontario on the design of the Green Energy Act and related WTO dispute settlement proceedings, participated in the Canada-European Union Trade Agreement (CETA) negotiations, and advised on various NAFTA Chapter 11 investor-state arbitration matters involving Ontario. Mr. Warner advises businesses and governments on trade negotiations and trade disputes. He also previously worked on trade and competition issues as counsel in the OECD Trade Directorate where he participated in the negotiations of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and represented the OECD at meetings of the WTO Working Group on Trade and Competition Policy and the Working Group on Trade and Investment.

Mark Warner Celebrates Magna Carta with American Bar Foundation Fellows in London

CHfrNxWWsAAkHBDMark Warner was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation earlier this year. The Fellows is limited to one percent of the lawyers admitted to practice in each jurisdiction in the United States and to a small number of international lawyers. (Seen here with with former American Bar Foundation President and 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Hon. Bernice Donald, June 14, 2015.)

Mark Warner Attends FTC Workshop on Competition & Consumer Protection Issues in the Sharing Economy

Mark Warner attends FTC Workshop on Competition & Consumer Protection Issues in the Sharing Economy. (June 9, 2015). As a former Acting Legal Director for the Ontario Ministry of Consumer Services, Mark was responsible for prosecutions under the provincial consumer protection laws and regulations. Mark’s experience with online technologies and e-commerce includes: participating in OECD-wide policy work on laws and regulations affecting e-commerce, acting as a Chair, ICC Competition Commission Working Party on E-Commerce and Competition Policy and serving as an appointed ICANN domain name dispute resolution arbitrator for eResolution and WIPO.