Edmund W Sim

Ed represents companies and governments in international trade disputes. He has provided assistance to government trade ministries in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, the Philippines, Timor-Leste, China, Mongolia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and Africa in the implementation of antidumping and countervailing duty laws, safeguards, rules of origin, free trade agreements, and investment laws. Much of this work involves the WTO agreements. Ed has participated in dispute resolution proceedings under the WTO, GATT, NAFTA and US-Canada FTA. He has also participated in antitrust investigations involving the extraterritorial application of US and EU unfair competition law to Asian companies and governments.

Ed has participated in about 280 trade remedy cases involving products from semiconductors to shrimps and economies as diverse as Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Australia, Ecuador, South Africa, Egypt, UAE, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Norway, Kosovo, Turkey, US, UK and EU.

Ed has taught ASEAN courses in Singapore, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, US and Thailand. He provides advice to major corporations regarding developments in ASEAN.

Ed has served as a consultant to the ASEAN Secretariat and advises the Timor-Leste government on its accession to ASEAN. He has also advised on economic integration in other regions (Gulf Cooperation Council, Greater Tumen Initiative, African Tri-Partite FTA).

Ed frequently speaks on international trade issues and has provided commentary on trade issues to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Straits Times, South China Morning Post, New Straits Times, Bangkok Post, Channel News Asia, Reuters, Bloomberg, BBC and CNBC.

Ex-clients include Hall of Famers Dikembe Mutombo and Michael Chang.

Ed was formerly a partner in the law firms of White & Case and Hunton & Williams and an associate at Patton Boggs and Willkie Farr. During university, he worked at the Office of U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush and the Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Treasury Department.

Panel of FTA Advisors, Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry

President, Asian/Asian American Pacific Islander Alumni of University of Michigan

Past Treasurer, Vice Chair, Government and Regional Affairs Committee Co-Chair and liaison to Singapore American School and Singapore American Community Action Council, American Chamber of Commerce, Singapore

Past Chair, International Trade and Customs Law Committee, International Bar Association

Past Co-Chair, Pacific Rim Interest Group, American Society of International Law

Past Vice Chair, International Trade Committee, Inter Pacific Bar Association

Past Vice Chair, Asia Pacific Committee, American Bar Association

Past President, Dartmouth Alumni Club of Singapore

The Foundation of the ASEAN Economic Community: An Institutional and Legal Profile (withStefano Inama), 2015, Cambridge University Press

Rules of Origin in ASEAN: a Way Forward (with Stefano Inama), 2015, Cambridge University Press

University of Michigan

JD

1988 - 1991

Dartmouth College

AB

1984 - 1988

U.S. Court of International Trade, admitted 1992

District of Columbia, admitted 1992

Maryland, admitted 1991