Boosting your ability to trade across borders
The world operates within a complex political, regulatory and media environment. The way businesses and governments interpret and influence developments in this environment is crucial to their ongoing commercial success. Effective management of this environment is key to the way you are perceived by the markets and by political, regulatory, media and consumer audiences.
Our lawyers offer trade, lobbying and communications support to public and private sector clients across the world. We help clients, whether business or government, navigate complex regulation, legislation and standards that govern global policymaking; understand policy creation and decision-making processes across the US, EU and beyond; and ensure their opinions are heeded in Brussels, Washington, DC, Geneva, London and other global capitals.
Our group counsel clients on cross-border opportunities while managing the regulatory risks. With decades of experience practicing before various international trade and investment authorities, we’re well positioned to help companies through the ever changing regulations and guidance around international trade and includes advising clients on the US this national security review process.
We offer strategic and legal support to companies caught up in complex and rapidly changing financial sanctions including helping businesses meet the regulatory challenges, minimizing risk and developing proactive programs to fit business needs. Our team also supports our client needs around customs enforcement and routinely help multinationals reduce their customs duties and indirect tax liabilities. We conduct internal audits and act for importers and others in voluntary disclosure cases, seizures and so on.
“Our lawyers offer trade, lobbying and communications support to public and private sector clients across the world.”
Our lawyers represent clients in high-profile antidumping and countervailing duty cases, which combine traditional trade remedy litigation with political work. Here, our in-depth experience in the actual conduct of trade proceedings enables us to provide sophisticated advice. We also address customs classification, circumvention and customs fraud issues.
We have extensive experience in advising companies on government agency regulations surrounding international trade and transactions. Our practice includes the former director of the Office of Foreign Assets Controls and other former Executive Branch officials from The White House and the US Commerce Department.
Our practice encompasses the full range of trade remedy litigation before trade agencies, international dispute resolution panels and the courts. We have prosecuted, defended and provided advice with respect to numerous US and foreign import relief and market access proceedings.
Our US FCPA, UK Bribery Act, and international anti-corruption and financial fraud lawyers are experienced at dealing with investigations and enforcement. And our investigations, reviews, audits and due diligence projects span the globe.
