ACLSC 2016
Greg Kanargelidis is the Practice Group Leader for the Blakes International Trade Group. His practice embraces all areas of international trade, customs and commodity tax. He regularly represents clients with respect to cross-border trade and investment issues including compliance with international agreements (such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, the World Trade Organization and its various agreements), other bilateral and regional trade and investment agreements, export controls, sanctions, export/import licences, and procurement disputes. He also has considerable experience in representing Canadian and foreign clients in trade remedy matters, including antidumping and anti-subsidy investigations.
Mark Warner is an Ontario and New York attorney specializing in competition, trade and investment law. He has practiced law in leading law firms in Toronto, Washington, New York and Brussels, has served as counsel to the OECD in Paris, and is a former Director of Legal Services for Ontario Ministry of Economic Development & Trade, Ministry of Research & Innovation and Ministry of Consumer Services.
His international work includes advising on foreign corrupt practices, sanctions, foreign asset controls, anti-money laundering and export controls issues, including assisting various multinational firms in developing compliance programs in these areas. Mark has been an advisor to the Governments of Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam on competition and trade policy and at the invitation of the U.S. Department of State lectured in five cities in Japan on international antitrust law and policy. As Assistant Director of the University of Baltimore’s Centre for International and Comparative Law, Mark hired a Chinese scholar to begin a research program on reforming anti-monopoly law in China, one of the first such efforts at the time.
He is co-author of a leading Canadian trade law treatise, has also published numerous articles, has been invited to speak at conferences around the world and is frequently interviewed in print, radio and television on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement.
Mark earned a BA 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. 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.
Robert Wisner is a partner in the Litigation department of McMillan LLP and its Co-Chair, International Arbitration. His practice focuses on international commercial arbitration, investment treaty arbitration and cross-border business litigation. Robert has argued numerous cases before international arbitral tribunals and has appeared at all levels of the Ontario and Federal courts as well as before various administrative tribunals. These cases have involved matters of private and public international law, joint venture and shareholder disputes, complex commercial contracts and competition law or regulatory issues. Robert has been described "as ‘a leader in his field' through his premier international commercial and investor state arbitration work" (Who's Who Legal 2012). McMillan has also been ranked amongst the world's top 100 practices by Global Arbitration Review for eight consecutive years. Many of Robert's clients are involved in the mining, energy, aviation, infrastructure or telecommunications sectors and carry on business in emerging markets. He speaks English, French and Spanish.