Biography: Competition

Mark Katz is a partner of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, working in the Toronto office where he is a member of the competition and foreign investment review practice. He has advised domestic and international clients on a wide variety of competition law matters including mergers and acquisitions, criminal cartel investigations, joint ventures, abuse of dominance, distribution and pricing practices, misleading advertising and compliance. Mark also has appeared at every level of court in relation to competition matters, up to and including the Supreme Court of Canada, and has acted as counsel on several leading cases before the Competition Tribunal, including the first abuse of dominance and merger cases heard by that body. Mark also provides advice regarding the application of the Investment Canada Act.

Mark has authored a wide variety of articles and conference papers on competition law matters and contributed to a number of texts and treatises in the area, as well as authoring and presenting policy briefs for clients on a variety of domestic and international competition-related matters. Mark is a member of the editorial boards for the North American Free Trade Reporter and Competition Law Insight and is active in the American Bar Association and Canadian Bar Association, including serving currently as the co-chair of the international antitrust law committee of the ABA section of international law and the chair of the criminal law section of the CBA section of national competition law.

He is also co-author of the forthcoming Competition Law Guide for Trade Associations in Canada.

Mark is recognised in Law Business Research's The International Who's Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists, Chambers Global: Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers as a leader in his field, and in The Best Lawyers in Canada, in the area of competition and antitrust law. He also appears in the PLC Cross-border Competition Handbook, the PLC Cross-border Leniency Handbook and PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook, in the field of competition and antitrust. Mark obtained his LLB at Osgoode Hall Law School, graduating in 1987. He joined the firm as a partner in 1999.