Selling or Buying, What You Need to Know
In a globalized economy, it’s vital for expanding companies to understand fully the implications of regulatory roadblocks including customs requirements and for others to be prepared to take action in and defend themselves against international trade claims
Our global regulatory and trade practice, coordinated by key counsel in the EU, the U.S., Asia and Latin America, brings both cross border and in-country expertise to a broad range of issues facing companies daily including :
Regional and National Regulatory Law : including regulatory requirements for setting up business across a wide range of industries including licensing and notification requirements, and in the EU in particular product manufacturing and import specifications and compliance
Antitrust Law : Complete global coverage of antitrust filing requirements for mergers and acquisitions globally as well as regulatory advice for individual country notifications on agreements, joint ventures and complex commercial agreements with competitors or potential competitors.
Customs Law : Representation before customs authorities including on classification and anti-fraud matters as well as preventive advice to clients with regard to the customs treatment of their exports to the EC from a given jurisdiction in the stage of the feasibility plan of their investment projects. Also advice to governments and companies on EC and U.S. GSP issues (generalized system of preferences), on GSP and other preferential rules of origin and on cumulation of origin in the context of the GSP and EC bilateral agreements with third countries.
Trade Law : Advice on trade legislation of various countries in light of WTO standards, including to governments and companies on various WTO issues regarding WTO accession negotiations, GATT compensation negotiations pursuant to the enlargement of the EC, WTO compatibility of EC trade laws, WTO negotiation on the Anti-dumping Agreement and the Agreement on Subsidy and Countervailing Measures. We are also involved in training of trade officials and drafting of policy papers and trade legislation in areas such as agriculture, monopoly pricing, Technical Barriers to Trade and Sanitary and Phitosanitary legislation.
Trade Defense : Anti-dumping, anti-subsidy (countervailing duty) and safeguards investigations in numerous jurisdictions, including EC, the U.S., Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. We also provide proactive and preventive advice to clients in dealing with current proceedings and future risks of trade defense investigations, by training our clients’ staff in monitoring their exports and gaining a better understanding of how to prevent the risk of an investigation and/or how to best prepare in case of an investigation. This proactive approach has often resulted in our clients avoiding an investigation or achieving very positive results in an on-going proceeding.
Special Regulatory Service : And if you have ongoing requirements in this area, we will provide you a full time regulatory counsel to look after any aspect of your business that needs ongoing monitoring and special attention.
For more information contact :
For the EMEA region including the EU : emeatrade@transatlanticlaw.com
For Asia including China and India : asiatrade@transatanticlaw.com
For Latin America : latrade@transatlanticlaw.com