Law, policy, investigations, and government affairs. The issue determines the mix.

Antidumping, countervailing duty, and Section 201 Safeguard proceedings.

We represent petitioners and respondents through every phase of antidumping, countervailing duty, and Section 201 Safeguard proceedings, from pre-petition feasibility analysis through verification, hearing, appeal, and administrative review.

• Pre-petition analysis: Injury feasibility studies using the same variance and Commercial Policy Analysis System (COMPAS) models the ITC applies, so a client knows the odds before spending on a petition.
• Commerce and ITC proceedings: Petitions, questionnaire responses, on-site verifications, hearing preparation, and briefing.
• Appeals and review: U.S. Court of International Trade, the Federal Circuit, and NAFTA and USMCA binational panel review.
• Scope and circumvention: Scope rulings, anticircumvention inquiries, and the regional industry and standing questions that decide who is in the domestic industry.

Section 301, Section 232, and tariffs imposed under presidential discretion.

Section 301, Section 232, and tariffs imposed under presidential discretion move faster than litigation and often reach further. We help clients get products added to or removed from tariff lists, pursue exclusions, and model what a tariff action will do to a landed price.

• Section 301: Petitions, exclusion requests, and advocacy during statutory review, including adding products to an existing action.
• Section 232: National security investigations, exclusion practice, and quota administration.
• Administrative tariffs: International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and other actions subject to presidential discretion.
• Tariff modeling: Landed cost analysis combining duty rates with ocean freight and transportation economics.

The forums where trade agreement obligations get tested.

Our team has argued and advised in the forums where trade agreement obligations get tested.

• WTO: Consultations, panel and Appellate Body proceedings, and compliance disputes.
• USMCA, NAFTA, and CAFTA-DR: State-to-state dispute settlement and binational panel review.
• Investor-state and commercial arbitration: ICC, NAFTA, and UNCITRAL rules.
• Federal courts: U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Trade problems solved before they reach a docket.

Many trade problems are solved before they reach a docket. We present client positions to federal and state legislators and executive branch officials, build the coalitions that make an industry position credible, and negotiate cooperative agreements between foreign and domestic industries.

• Legislative and executive advocacy: Government affairs strategy before Congress, USTR, Commerce, and the White House.
• Coalition building: Establishing purpose-built entities capable of advocating on behalf of a domestic industry, including where competitors must cooperate.
• Commercial diplomacy: Negotiating directly with foreign governments and industries to resolve disputes without litigation.
• Public relations: Coordinating public-facing messages with legal, policy, and coalition strategy.
• Data storytelling: Translating economic findings into the narrative that moves policymakers, who read data differently than sales teams do.

Cross-border investigations and the compliance programs that follow them.

Cross-border investigations and the compliance programs that follow them, run in the languages the witnesses actually speak.

• Internal investigations: Multi-jurisdictional Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and anticorruption matters across Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, including multilingual witness interviews and managed document review.
• Voluntary disclosure: Counseling on self-disclosure and conducting negotiations with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Fraud Section and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Enforcement Division.
• Compliance program design: Risk-based anticorruption frameworks, third-party due diligence, gift and hospitality policies, and multilingual training for high-risk jurisdictions.
• Privilege and filter practice: Filter protocols for large-scale reviews and pre-indictment privilege litigation, drawing on service in the Justice Department’s Special Matters Unit.
• Transactional diligence: Corruption and sanctions risk assessment in mergers and acquisitions, with post-acquisition integration strategy.

What leaves the country, what comes in, and who is allowed to buy it.

The rules that govern what leaves the country, what comes in, and who is allowed to buy it. We advise on compliance before something goes wrong and run the investigation when it does.

• Export controls: Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) classification, licensing, and internal investigations, including coordination with the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.
• Sanctions and embargoes: Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) compliance and the U.S. trade embargo with Cuba.
• Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS): Foreign investment review and mitigation.
• Customs: Classification, valuation, country of origin, and import compliance.

Advice on the ground and in Washington when politics is the principal risk.

For investors and companies operating where the political environment is the principal risk, we advise on the ground and in Washington.

• Political risk assessment: Country and sector analysis for investors, foundations, and development agencies.
• Negotiations with governments and state-owned enterprises: Energy, pharmaceutical, and construction sectors.
• Market entry: Regulatory and political groundwork for foreign investment.
• Southeast Europe and transatlantic affairs: Sustained relationships across the region and in Brussels.