Rajib Pal Counsel Washington, D.C.  202.736.8329 202.736.8711 Fax Vcard

RAJIB PAL advises clients in WTO dispute settlement proceedings, U.S. trade remedy proceedings, investor-state arbitrations, and other complex matters related to international trade and investment. He is counsel in the firm’s international trade/arbitration practice.

Mr. Pal has extensive experience representing private parties and sovereign governments at every level of WTO dispute settlement proceedings, including at the panel and Appellate Body levels, and in the implementation and retaliation phases of disputes. Mr. Pal’s experience includes: 

• Representation of a major European manufacturing company in a dispute concerning prohibited and actionable subsidies under the WTO Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreement.
• Representation of sovereign governments in disputes concerning the inconsistency of the U.S. practice of “zeroing” with the WTO Antidumping Agreement.
• Representation of sovereign governments and industry associations in several different disputes concerning GATT and GATS rules on scheduled concessions, market access, national treatment, quantitative restrictions, and general exceptions.

In addition, Mr. Pal often provides advice to private parties and sovereign governments as to whether government measures are inconsistent with the WTO Covered Agreements.

Mr. Pal also has substantial experience representing petitioners and respondents in U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings before the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission. With undergraduate degrees in economics and chemistry, Mr. Pal is often sought by chemical industry clients to advise in such U.S. trade remedy proceedings.

Moreover, Mr. Pal represents investors and governments in international arbitrations brought under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties; and provides advice to businesses, trade associations, and governments regarding U.S. and international rules on trade and investment. Further, Mr. Pal has successfully undertaken pro bono representation of separated U.S. workers seeking trade adjustment assistance in administrative proceedings and before the U.S. Court of International Trade.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Pal participated in the Graduate Fellowship Program at the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law, Small Business and Community Development Clinic, where he helped small businesses file trademark applications, and obtain non-profit and tax-exempt status. Prior to law school, Mr. Pal spent two years as a financial analyst in the U.S. Economic Research Group at Goldman Sachs, developing economic models, and researching and writing about the U.S. economy, financial markets, and international trade.

Mr. Pal is fluent in Bengali, and has elementary proficiency in Spanish.