Professional Affiliation

Director, Atlantis International/Principal Counsel MAAW Law

Expert Bio

Mark is an Ontario and New York attorney who has practiced trade, investment and competition law in Toronto, New York, Washington, D.C and Brussels and as counsel to the OECD in Paris. He is affiliated with Pilot Law LLP, a resource development firm and Atlantis International, a cross-border business advisory company.

Mark is a former Legal Director of the Ontario Ministries of Economic Development & Trade, Research & Innovation and Consumer Services. He led Ontario’s legal team for trade negotiations (including the Canada-EU Trade Agreement and the Canada-U.S. Agreement on Government Procurement), trade disputes (including the Green Energy Act and softwood lumber) and various NAFTA Chapter 11 investor-state disputes and for the insolvency / restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler. 

Mark is a former faculty member at the University of Baltimore School of Law and Assistant Director of its Center of International & Comparative Law and is 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 Force on Competition Policy and NAFTA. 

Mark assisted pharmaceutical clients in the global distribution of anti-retroviral drugs in response to the AIDS epidemic. He has provided advice to senior government officials and international institutions in Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, South America and Central & Eastern Europe.

Mark was also co-author of the Second Edition of a leading Canadian trade law treatise (with the Hon. William C. Graham and Professors Jean-Gabriel Castel and Armand de Mestral). He has been listed in the Euromoney / International Financial Law Review Guide to the World’s Leading Competition lawyers and in 2015 was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Mark earned a BA (Joint Honours) from McGill, an MA in Economics from the University of Toronto, a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School and an LLM from Georgetown University Law Centre.