The Firm advises governments and businesses on both defensive and offensive trade strategies. Its expertise covers all WTO-related areas, such as customs legislation (including rules of origin), trade remedies, agricultural policies, non-tariff barriers to trade (including technical regulations, standards, and sanitary and phytosanitary measures), subsidies, trade in services, trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights and dispute settlement. Firm members have unique experience advising nations on negotiating strategies before multilateral fora, such as the WTO, and at the bilateral and regional levels.
Firm members assist governments and private companies to assess the compatibility of
domestic laws with the WTO Agreement and various regional trade agreements. Firm
members have extensive experience advising on matters arising under regional and
plurilateral agreements (preferential trade agreements).