Dr Mark Berry was appointed Chair of the Commerce Commission

Commerce Commission

The Commerce Commission is a New Zealand government agency charged with enforcing legislation that promotes competition in the country's markets and prohibits misleading and deceptive conduct by traders...

 (of New Zealand) in April 2009.

Mark Berry was a partner in law firm Bell Gully

Bell Gully

Bell Gully was founded in 1840 and is one of the country’s oldest legal providers.As one of the largest law firms in New Zealand, Bell Gully can act on the most complex and largest commercial matters....

 (then called Bell Gully Buddle Weir) from 1988 until resigning to do post-graduate studies at the Columbia University Law School where he gained a JSD

JSD

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. He taught Contract Law, Competition Law

Competition law

Competition law, known in the United States as antitrust law, is law that promotes or maintains market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies....

 and Securities Regulation at Otago University Law school.

He was Deputy Chair of the Commerce Commission between 1999 and 2001. He was a consultant with Chapman Tripp until 2003. From 2003, Mark Berry practised as a barrister sole at Barristers.Comm chambers.