Mayer Brown offers governmental clients as well as global businesses and trade associations in the energy, chemicals, and retail sectors ‘clear, business-friendly, actionable advice‘ across the full range of international trade matters. In addition to acting in WTO disputes, the team advises on EU sanctions, export control, and tariff regulations, as well as in a number of high-profile anti-dumping investigations. Investment controls and the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation represent growing areas of focus for the team, which frequently draws on the firm’s cross-practice antitrust capabilities to assist with anti-subsidy and FDI compliance and litigation. Paulette Vander Schueren, who is noted for her experience handling trade and supply chain compliance matters as well as questions surrounding customs valuation, co-leads the team with WTO and trade remedy disputes expert Nikolay Mizulin. Customs and ESG regulatory expert Dylan Geraets is also recommended.

V V G B Advocaten-Avocats' practice excels at handling contentious trade defence cases, acting in high-profile WTO disputes as well as in EU anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations for a client roster that comprises governments and large multinationals. In addition to regularly acting on customs matters for its clients, the team's international arbitration expertise equips it to represent clients in their attempts to challenge and terminate safeguard measures and anti-dumping duties on an EU and third country level Increasingly, subsidies expert Edwin Vermulst also advises clients in connection with EU's Foreign Subsidies Regulation and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. Vermulst co-leads the practice with anti-dumping expert Folkert Graafsma, who is a key contact for WTO cases. Further key contacts in the team include Joris Cornelis, whose practice spans the breadth of international trade law, and customs and anti-dumping expert Juhi Dion Sud.

Van Bael & Bellis‘ team is composed of a large roster of trade and customs experts who are very well-regarded for their ability to handle a wide range of contentious cross-border trade defence cases. The team is very active in WTO work, acting for national governments in a number of disputes surrounding anti-dumping, customs, and tariff measures. It also regularly represents multinational clients in the industrials sector in EU anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, and anti-absorption investigations alongside measure expiry reviews and trade remedy challenges before the EU courts. Practice head Philippe De Baere is instructed to advise on a growing number of ESG and supply chain compliance matters as well as on questions surrounding EU sanctions and export controls. Further key contacts in the team include trade defence experts Fabrizio Di Gianni and Richard Luff, customs expert Pablo Muñiz, as well as Yuriy Rudyuk and Isabelle Van Damme.

International institutions, trade associations, and industrial producers rely on Dentons‘ trade expertise, with the team being especially well-disposed to act in WTO disputes surrounding Eurasian trade as well as litigation matters before EU courts in connection with anti-dumping, customs, and other trade remedy measures. The team is also active on trade compliance matters, providing due diligence advice in connection with EU sanctions and ESG-related supply chain matters. Practice head Edward Borovikov is well-versed in trade and competition law, while Xiaoyi Tang is a key contact for issues surrounding cross-border transactions. Sanctions specialists Nicoleta Tuominen and Laurens Engelen are further names to note.

The 'very experienced lawyers' at Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I are instructed by major companies and trade associations in connection with the EU's trade remedy measures, with the team both advising on trade compliance and representing clients in anti-dumping and anti-subsidy complaints and investigations before the European Commission. Export controls are a key areas of focus for the practice, which is particularly noted for its ability to advise on company's trade relations with China and compliance with the EU's sanctions on Russia. Practice head Olivier Prost is a longstanding expert on trade defence matters. Anna Claudia Coelho Dias departed the firm in July 2023, while senior counsel Wolfgang Müller joined from an in-house role at the European Commission.

King & Spalding LLP’s international trade practice is well-regarded for its expertise on the complainant side of trade defence cases, with the team regularly acting for EU industry bodies and associations in anti-dumping and customs enforcement claims. Advice in the context of advocacy work is another key area of expertise for the department, which routinely assists clients with the development of arguments for the introduction of further EU trade defence mechanisms. In addition to handling matters in the context of trade defence enforcement, the team also represents industry bodies in their capacity as exporters and regularly acts in third country trade remedy proceedings. Trade litigation expert Marie-Sophie Dibling, who maintains close relationships with clients in Morocco in addition to advising EU industrial clients, heads up the practice.

In addition to its 'deep knowledge of sanctions' and associated compliance work, Steptoe LLP is particularly well-versed in handling contentious trade defense matters. The team is capable of handling investigations and disputes before the WTO as well as before EU courts and has acted for governmental and corporate clients in proceedings regarding anti-dumping, import duty, and customs measures. Practice head Renato Antonini is a key contact for this line of work, while Eva Monard also advises on a growing number of regulatory matters in connection with export controls and ESG measures. Yongqing Bao maintains close relationships with a roster of China-based clients and advises across contentious and non-contentious trade matters.

Bird & Bird assists industrial manufacturers as well as large multinationals in the TMT sector with a wide range of trade compliance matters, with a particular focus on providing due diligence advice in the context of EU customs and sanctions regimes. Guided by the expertise of competition expert Hein Hobbelen, the team also regularly acts for trade associations as complainants in anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations before the European Commission. Hobbelen co-heads the practice with Hague-based lawyer Brian Mulier, a trade and tax compliance expert who is noted for his advice on export controls.

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP regularly represents clients in trade disputes and arbitration, with the team's expertise encompassing WTO and ICSID disputes around customs and sanctions measures as well as, increasingly, complaints under the EU's Foreign Subsidies Regulation. Regulatory questions are also a key area of focus for the team, which advises multinational companies and trade associations in connection with EU sanctions and export control measures. Lode Van Den Hende leads the practice and is an expert in WTO litigation and international trade regulation. Other key contacts include Eric White, who regularly advises clients on post-Brexit UK-EU trade relations, and Morris Schonberg, an expert in subsidy control matters.

Hogan Lovells International LLP's trade and investment team frequently collaborates with the firm's global offices to advise on a range of multi-jurisdictional sanctions and trade defence matters. The team maintains a client base of leading multinationals in the pharma, financial services, and steel sectors and is very active in providing due diligence advice on EU sanctions and investment control matters, while also representing clients in a number of EU anti-subsidy investigations. Lourdes Catrain, who leads the Belgian team, is an expert on international trade and sanctions matters and regularly advises on the trade and investment compliance aspects of cross-border M&A.

Reed Smith focuses on advising its client base of major corporate clients on a wide variety of customs-related matters. In this space, trade regulation and customs valuation questions are a key area of focus, although the team is equally capable of acting for clients in contentious trade remedy proceedings. Practice head Yves Melin offers clients extensive customs experience and also advises on a growing volume of sanctions matters as well as on questions surrounding supply chain compliance. Trade disputes expert Jin Woo Kim is also recommended.

White & Case LLP serves as the trusted advisor of a number of major companies and trade associations, with a particular focus on the steel industry, and focuses on acting in trade defence and WTO investigations and disputes. The team is very active in advising on the maintenance and enforcement of anti-dumping duties, while also handling matters related totrade safeguards and remedies for clients in their capacity as materials exporters. Trade compliance is a further area of expertise for the team, which is regularly instructed to advise on sanctions, supply chain, and customs matters. A consortium of lawyers leads the practice: James Killick handles trade defence and anti-dumping matters, Geneva-based Jasper Wauters is a key contact for WTO work, and Genevra Forwood and Sara Nordin are experts on sanctions and export controls.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton offers broad trade compliance capabilities that allow the team to advise on EU sanctions and safeguards as well as, increasingly, the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation. Besides its regulatory expertise, which is bolstered further by connections with the firm’s international offices, the team also acts for European producers in investigations and disputes surrounding anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, and anti-circumvention rules. François-Charles Laprévote is an expert on regulatory matters, including FDI, and co-leads the practice with Till Müller-Ibold, who is a key contact for sanctions work and regularly represents clients in proceedings before the European Courts.

Crowell & Moring‘s team benefits from the firm’s global presence, which enables it to advise on a wide range of cross-border trade compliance matters for leading multinational corporates and industrial producers. The team also handles contentious work in the context of securing market access, with a particular focus on representing clients in investigations for the review of EU, UK and US customs and anti-dumping measures. Experienced trade compliance and disputes lawyer Vassilis Akritidis, who also handles WTO matters and EU anti-fraud investigations, leads the practice. WTO expert Maria Krestiyanova joined the team in April 2024 from Dentons.

Garrigues advises a range of European and North African companies in the industrials, food, and pharma sectors on a range of trade defence matters and focuses on defending clients’ interests in their capacities as manufacturers and exporters. Accordingly, the team assists manufacturers’ associations in applying for the introduction and prolonging of safeguarding measures, while also representing exporters in anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations. Practice head Angel Givaja is noted as an expert on trade remedies and customs matters.

Questions surrounding international trade regulations represent the focus area of Jones Day's team, which is knowledgeable on matters concerning EU sanctions, customs measures, and ESG supply chain regulations. The team, which also advises clients on the regulatory aspects of WTO rules and is capable of of acting in regulatory challenges and trade remedy proceedings, counts multinational companies as well as governmental entities in its client roster. Practice head Nadiya Nychay is vastly experienced with WTO matters as well as with trade compliance and dispute resolution.

K&L Gates GP‘s Brussels team maintains close relationships with the firm’s international offices, which it routinely leverages to act for commercial clients in EU anti-dumping investigations and in trade measure reviews. The team also regularly advises on the FDI aspects of global M&A and advises a growing number of clients on EU sanctions compliance. Petr Bartoš frequently handles FDI and export control matters. Alessandro Di Mario left the team in September 2022, and former practice head Philip Torbøl left the firm in 2024, shortly before publication.

EU-US trade relations are a key area of expertise for the team at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, which routinely collaborates with the firm's British and American offices to advise multinationals in a wide array of sectors on trade and investment compliance matters. The team is well-versed in matters surrounding export controls and sanctions and, in addition to handling due diligence and contracting matters, also represents clients in trade investigations and proceedings. Regulatory expert Curtis Dombek leads the practice.