Mark Katz

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Mark Katz is a partner in the Toronto office of Davies Ward

Phillips & Vineberg LLP, where he is a member of the Competition & 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 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. He 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. He 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 Committee of the ABA Section of International Law and the vice chair of the Criminal Matters Committee of the CBA Section of Competition Law.

Mark is recognised in Law Business Research’s The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists, Chambers Global’s 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/antitrust law. He also appears in PLC Cross-border Competition Handbook, PLC Cross-border Leniency Handbook and PLC Which lawyer? Yearbook, in the field of competition/antitrust.