Mark Nelson

Mark W. Nelson is a partner based in Cleary Gottlieb’s Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on global antitrust matters, with an emphasis on merger cases and U.S. civil litigation. His U.S. practice includes extensive merger work and antitrust counseling, and litigation experience in both civil and criminal matters, as well as in FTC administrative proceedings. Mark’s global practice involves merger cases before the EC Commission and national authorities throughout Europe, Asia, and South America, as well as defending actions involving alleged restraints of trade and abuses of dominant position in EU proceedings. He has also been actively involved in litigation, investigations, and counseling in matters involving the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property law, in particular in the context of patent pools and standards-setting. 

Mr. Nelson received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1992 and an undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1989. Prior to joining Cleary Gottlieb, he served as a law clerk to Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.