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Mark Warner was invited to participate in the Canadian Competition Bureau Workshop on emerging competition issues in Ottawa on January 19th. The workshop featured speakers from business, academia, the legal community, and government, both domestic and international. Participants discussed disruptive new business models, the implications for competition policy, and how best to incorporate non-price effects into competition assessment.

Mark chaired an Insight Research Canadian Sharing Economy Symposium in Toronto on December 2nd. 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 Chair, ICC Competition Commission Working Party on E-Commerce and Competition Policy, serving as an original ICANN domain name dispute resolution arbitrator for eResolution and WIPO and as Rapporteur of the Hague Conference on Private International Law Commission on Jurisdiction for Torts in Electronic Commerce.

Mark Warner was recently featured in an American Bar Foundation Fellows Spotlight. The Fellows is an honorary organization of attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars who have been elected by their peers to become members of The Fellows. Selection as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation is recognition of a lawyer whose career has demonstrated extraordinary leadership in the profession, service to society, and commitment to the ideals and objectives of the American Bar Association. Membership in The Fellows is limited to less than one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction of the United States and to a small percentage of international lawyers. Past Fellows include: Justice Ginsburg, Justice Breyer, Attorney General Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Kenneth Feinberg and Scott Turow.

Mark Warner lectured on Competition, Trade & Investment Issues Affecting the Pharmaceutical Industry at the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and Law. (April 9, 2015) Mr. Warner discussed: the Canadian Competition Bureau approach to patent litigation “pay for delay” settlement agreements; Eli Lilly’s $500 million North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Chapter 11  investor-state arbitration claiming that Canadian patent laws unfairly discriminate against pharmaceutical companies; and pharmaceutical issues in the Canada-European Union Trade Agreement (CETA) and Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations. Mr. Warner was Legal Director of the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development & Trade and advised Ontario in the CETA negotiations and on several NAFTA Chapter 11 Investor-State Arbitrations. Mr. Warner, a Canadian and U.S. lawyer, has advised governments on trade policy and trade negotiations and previously worked on trade and competition issues as counsel in the OECD Trade Directorate.

Mark Warner discusses Competition, Corruption and Corporate Governance at Seminar at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) School of Business Administration (EAESP) in São Paulo on April 6, 2015. The seminar will discuss the ongoing investigation of Brazil’s state petroleum company, Petrobras which has now implicated more than a dozen multi-national construction companies for alleged bid-rigging. Mark will draw parallels with the ongoing prosecution of SNC-Lavalin relating to allegations of fraud and corruption in connection with alleged bribes to foreign public officials and for alleged fraud relating to construction of the Great Man Made River Project in Libya and the prosecution of former executives of SNC-Lavalin relating to alleged bribes of SNC-Lavalin paid for a contract to build a hospital in Montreal. [VIDEO starts around 1:29:58 and ends around 2:09:10]