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Mark Warner was featured on the CBC News Weekend Business Panel about the cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike software update paralyzing Microsoft’s Windows operating system and related cybersecurity, competition / antitrust, sanctions and compliance issues. (July 20, 2024) Mr. Warner is a Canadian and U.S. lawyer who has practiced in Toronto, Washington, D.C., New York and Brussels 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 in Paris. Mark also advises on sanctions and export controls issues, including assisting various multinational firms in developing compliance programs in these areas.

As Legal Director for the Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation, Mr. Warner led Ontario’s legal team in creating the $250 million Ontario Emerging Technologies Fund, the $205 million Ontario Venture Capital Fund focused, in part, on the digital media and information and communications technology sectors. 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.

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. In private practice, he has also worked on privacy and data breach cases in the financial, retail, education and healthcare sectors. In 2015, Mark chaired a first of its kind international conference in Toronto on competition and consumer protection issues in the Sharing Economy.

Mark Warner was featured on the CBC News Weekend Business Panel talking about Live Nation confirming a data breach within a third-party cloud storage and analytics company affecting customer data of its ticketing subsidiary, Ticketmaster; slow growing mortgage debt; slow GDP growth and potential interest rate cuts in Canada. (June 1, 2024) Mark is a Canadian and U.S. lawyer who has practiced in Toronto, Washington, D.C, New York and Brussels and has advised governments on competition law and policy.

Mark is a former Acting Legal Director of the Ontario Ministry of Consumer Services, and was responsible for prosecutions under the provincial consumer protection laws and regulations. MCS is responsible for administering the Ticket Sales Act (Ontario) which establishes requirements for ticket businesses and other persons and outlines protections for purchasers of tickets to Ontario events. In private practice, he has also worked on data breach cases in the financial, retail, education and healthcare sectors. 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.

As counsel at the OECD Trade Directorate in Paris, Mark advised on other trade and competition issues and represented the OECD at meetings of the WTO Working Group on Trade and Competition and Working Group on Trade and Investment. Mark is a past Chair of the International and Economics Committees of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law as well as a member of the Section’s Task Forces on Competition Policy and NAFTA and Antitrust in the Global Economy. He has been listed in the Euromoney / International Financial Law Review Guide to the World’s Leading Competition lawyers. In 2015, Mark was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Mark Warner was featured on the CBC Weekend Business Panel talking about the Canadian Competition Bureau Retail Grocery Market Study Report, compliance issues in response to possible data breaches and cybersecurity incidents at Indigo Books and Music Inc., Suncor Energy Inc. and Petro-Canada retail sites, and the latest Statistics Canada GDP monthly report. (July 1, 2023) Mr. Warner is a Canadian and U.S. lawyer who has practiced in Toronto, Washington, D.C., New York and Brussels 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 in Paris. Mark has assisted a national grocery in connection with an ongoing cartel investigation and has assisted clients on cyber-security and privacy compliance issues in various data breach matters.

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 (including for door to door water cooler salespeople and the introduction of the Province’s pay day lending laws). 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 is a past Chair of the International and Economics Committees of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law as well as a member of the Section’s Task Forces on Competition Policy and NAFTA and Antitrust in the Global Economy. In addition to being a lawyer, Mr. Warner has a Masters Degree in International Economics from the University of Toronto.