International Trade/Arbitration
Sidley's International Trade/Arbitration team includes more than 75 professionals with experience in all aspects of the global marketplace. We work with our clients to ensure that they understand, apply and make the most of the national and trans-national rules that shape global flows of capital, investment, goods, technology and services. We help solve market access problems and resolve the disputes that affect international business, whether they be commercial disputes in international arbitration, disputes with governments or disputes between governments over the rules of global trade. And we use international law to make a difference in the world.
Our distinctive practice wins global recognition. Sidley is the 2008 “Global Trade & Customs Law Firm of the Year” according to
Who’s Who Legal, and has had that honor each year since the award’s inception in 2005. Sidley was likewise named “Global WTO Law Firm of the Year” in 2006 by Chambers and Partners, and tops Chambers Global's International Trade rankings once again in 2008. Members of our team have unmatched knowledge and experience, often drawing from prior service in governments around the world. For more on what others say about us,
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Lawyers in our Brussels, Geneva and Washington, D.C. offices routinely work with regulatory and transactional lawyers based in Sidley’s offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and in our other U.S. and European offices. This allows us to assemble a global, highly integrated legal team to advise and advocate for corporations, trade associations, governments and other clients with a stake in the global rules of trade and investment.
Our International group assists clients in the full range of trade and dispute resolution matters including:
- Antidumping, countervailing duty, safeguard and other trade remedy proceedings
- Customs classification, valuation, rules of origin and preferential tariffs
- Supply chain security issues
- Export controls and antiboycott regulations
- Economic sanctions, embargoes and FCPA compliance
- Trade and investment policy issues before key government officials, including DG Trade (EU), MOFCOM (China), METI (Japan) and USTR (U.S.)
- International trade and investment negotiations and disputes under the WTO, NAFTA, BITs and FTAs
- International commercial arbitration
- Structuring transactions to take advantage of investment treaties and trade rules
- International protection of intellectual property rights
- Product regulation, industrial and environmental standards and food and drug safety
