Europe
Practice Areas
Trade remedies' investigations (anti-dumping; countervailing duty; safeguards); Customs (classification, valuation, RoO); WTO dispute settlement. Representing Governments, Multinationals, SMEs.
Career
Founding partner VVGB 1996-present; Partner Akin Gump 1990-1995; SJD (1986), LLM (1984) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Master/Bachelor of laws Utrecht University (1983, 1978).
Professional Memberships
Member of the Brussels bar; Editor-in-Chief Journal of World Trade, Board member Global Trade and Customs Journal, contributor Regulating Globalisation; Faculty member World Trade Institute (Bern) and EPLO (Athens), Advisory Board member ECIPE, European Centre for International Political Economy (Brussels).
Publications
Co-author of nine books, including landmark comparative analyses of the anti-dumping systems of Australia, Canada, the EU and the US with Professor John Jackson and of rules of origin, and numerous articles. The second edition of his book on EU Anti-Dumping Law and Practice was published in October 2010 by Sweet & Maxwell. His book on the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement was published in 2006 by Oxford University Press
Personal
Top ranked trade lawyer in Chambers (star individual), Legal 500 (star individual) and Who's Who Legal (trade and customs lawyer of the year for seven years).