• Advising a manufacturing company on the restructure of its supply chain further to the reform of the EU Generalised System of Preferences.
  • Advising companies on how to optimise the impact of Russia’s accession to the World Trade Organisation and identifying associated trade opportunities.
  • Acting for a leading multinational toy manufacturer in three concurrent Anti-Smuggling Bureau investigations in China. Successfully mitigated the VAT liability on imported tooling and preserved the clients compliance record.
  • Acting for China’s second largest paper producer in concurrent US anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations on imports of coated free sheet paper from China, resulting in a finding of no injury to the US industry.
  • Advising a food manufacturer on the Country of Origin labelling principles in the EU in light of the new Food Information to Consumer requirements.
  • Advising a manufacturer of lighting equipment exported to more than 20 jurisdictions, of product safety, regulatory notification and recall obligations.
  • Acting for global network infrastructure manufacturer, obtained global export authorization in the Netherlands and “Approved in Principal” export licenses in Hong Kong for dual-use high tech network components.
  • Acting on behalf of a major Mideast Sovereign Wealth Fund successfully completed the CFIUS process involving the acquisition of a stake in one of the America’s largest equity exchanges.
  • Advising a large Japanese company in the successful outcome of a CFIUS case involving the acquisition of a US company developing encrypted operational support systems for telecommunications companies.
  • Advising a global leader in the beverage industry on various licensing and compliance matters involving trade controls administered by the US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security and economic sanctions and embargo programs administered by the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
  • Provide legal advice and assistance to global agricultural commodities, food-processing and commodities-trading corporation on various licensing and compliance matters involving trade controls administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security and economic sanctions and embargo programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
  • Provide legal advice and assistance to a Japanese and French multinational automobile manufacturers on various licensing and compliance matters involving trade controls administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security and economic sanctions and embargo programs administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
  • Counsel several leading property/casualty and life/health insurance and reinsurance companies involving compliance with economic sanctions laws and regulations administered by the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control, extra-territorial sanctions administered by the Department of State and other related sanctions administered by state insurance or financial regulators.
  • Provide strategic assistance to a Swedish aerospace and defense company in designing and implementing export control compliance systems and authorizations to enhance global competitiveness.
  • Provide advice on compliance with the ITAR brokering regulations and other export control and sanctions regulations for a producer of aluminum products.
  • We provide advice on compliance with US export controls and economic sanctions for the conduct of the client’s business in embargoed countries for a worldwide designer, developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices.
  • Represent a metallurgical manufacturing facility and the world's largest and most efficient producers of metallurgical and chemical-grade silicon metal in a Department of Commerce and U.S. International Trade Commission sunset reviews of antidumping duty orders covering imports from three major silicomanganese producing and exporting countries.
  • Provide legal advice and preparation of notices filed with the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) for buyers from India, China, Italy, Spain, the Middle East, Canada and the United Kingdom allowing them to purchase controlling interests in U.S. businesses
  • Provide counseling, execution and analysis of anticorruption due diligence under the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act’s (FCPA) standards at both pre- and post-acquisition stages, including appropriate remediation of noncompliant findings, for transactions worldwide where one or both parties are subject to the extraterritorial requirements of U.S. law
  • We advise on mandatory reporting requirements to the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) under Section 219 of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act or inquiries from the SEC’s Office of Global Security Risk.