Mark Berry (lawyer)

Mark Berry is a lawyer who has been the chair of the Commerce Commission of New Zealand since April 2009.

Berry was a partner in law firm Bell Gully (then called Bell Gully Buddle Weir) from 1988 until he resigned to do post-graduate studies at the Columbia Law School (Columbia University) where he gained a JSD. He taught Contract Law, Competition Law and Securities Regulation at Otago University law school.

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