Mark Warner
Mark is a business-oriented, results-driven, senior international business and regulatory expert with private practice, government and academic experience in Canada, the United States, Europe and major emerging markets. He has extensive in cutting-edge experience in providing strategic advice to clients in on high impact / high profile competition, trade, investment and regulatory matters and providing compliance training to businesses and technical assistance to governments. Mark advises on foreign corrupt practices, foreign asset controls, anti-money laundering, export controls issues and corporate social responsibility and also assists clients in developing compliance programs in these areas.
Career highlights include leading the Government of Ontario’s legal team in relation to restructuring of GM & Chrysler, advising a multinational pharmaceutical company on distributing its HIV / AIDS drugs globally, and leading a team of foreign lawyers to draft the new South African Competition Law, a key framework economic policy for post-Apartheid South Africa.
Mark led Ontario’s legal team for trade negotiations (including the Canada-EU Trade Agreement (CETA) and the Canada-U.S. Agreement on Government Procurement), advised on trade disputes (including the Green Energy Act and softwood lumber) and various NAFTA Chapter 11 investor-state disputes (including the Ambassador Bridge, Adam’s Mine and St. Mary’s Cement claims). At the OECD, Mark participated in the negotiations of the proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment and represented the OECD at meetings of the WTO Working Groups on Trade and Competition Policies and Trade and Investment Policies. Mark has also provided technical assistance / legislative drafting advice to senior government officials and international institutions relating to law & policy in Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, South America and Central & Eastern Europe. Mark’s experience includes a tenure-track teaching position at the University of Baltimore School of Law and serving as Assistant Director of its Center of International & Comparative Law.
In 2015, Mark was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and has been recognized in Legal Media Group’s Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Competition Lawyers. Mark was also co-author of a leading Canadian trade law treatise (with the Hon. William C. Graham and Professors Jean-Gabriel Castel and Armand de Mestral). Mark also provides international trade and investment law advice to natural resources clients as a Colleague at Pilot Law which provides comprehensive legal services for developing resource businesses in the mining, energy and renewables sectors.
ADMISSIONS
Ontario
New York State
Brussels (List B) (2003-2005)
EDUCATION
- LLM, International and Comparative Law, Georgetown University Law Centre, Washington, D.C.
- JD, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto
- MA, Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto
- BA, Joint Honours in Economics and Political Science, McGill University, Montréal
LANGUAGES
English and French