Mark Katz is a partner in the Toronto office of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, where he is a member of the firm's competition and foreign investment review group.  Mark has advised domestic and international clients on a wide variety of competition law matters such as 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 with respect to the application of the Investment Canada Act.

Some of the public matters in which Mark has been involved include the prosecutions of Daiichi Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd. for cartel offences and related civil matters; the abuse of dominance proceedings initiated by CanJet Airlines against Air Canada; the investigation into pricing practices of RE/MAX International, Inc.; the acquisition by Procter & Gamble of The Gillette Company; the acquisition by Whirlpool Corporation of Maytag Corporation; the acquisition by Dubai Ports World of P&O; the acquisition by Barrick Gold Corporation of Placer Dome Inc.; and the acquisition by Xstrata Plc of Falconbridge Ltd.

Mark is an active member of several professional organizations, including the Canadian Bar Association's Competition Law Section and the Antitrust and International Sections of the American Bar Association.  Mark has authored a wide variety of articles and conference papers on competition law matters and has contributed to a number of texts and treatises in the area.  Mark also has authored and presented policy briefs for clients on a variety of domestic and international competition-related matters.

Mark is recognized in Chambers Global's The World's Leading Lawyers 2007 and in PLC Which Lawyer? for competition law practitioners.  He has been described as "a true stalwart of the practice".

Mark obtained his LL.B. at Osgoode Hall Law School, graduating in 1987.  He joined the firm as a partner in 1999.

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