Mark Warner is a senior international business and regulatory adviser with private practice and government experience. He has worked in leading law firms in Washington, D.C., New York, Brussels, Toronto and for the OECD in Paris. In addition, Mark has provided legal and policy advice to businesses and various international institutions and senior government officials in Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, South America and Central & Eastern Europe. As an OECD counsel, he provided advice concerning the development of the OECD Harmful Tax Competition initiative and advised on corporate codes of conduct in the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. As Legal Director for the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development & Trade and the Ministry of Research & Innovation, Mark led the legal team in establishing the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation, the $205 million Ontario Venture Capital Fund and the Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund, a $250 million co-investment venture capital fund.
Mark also was a member of a Task Force on Information Exchange and Financial Privacy of the Prosperity Institute. He is a former Chair of the International Committee of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section, has been listed in the Euromoney / International Financial Law Review Guide to the World’s Leading Competition lawyers and was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
- International trade and foreign investment notification and review matters
- Antitrust / competition law, including cartels, pre-merger notification and review, and pricing and distribution
- Civil and criminal investigations and negotiations with government authorities
- Compliance advice and training on sanctions, export controls, foreign corrupt practices and anti-money laundering
- Compliance advice and training on antitrust / competition law including pre-merger due diligence and cartel investigations