Client Collaborations
All Representative Cases
Initial and renewal applications for People's Republic of China AQSIQ scrap licenses sought by United States scrap companies, together with ongoing advice regarding the interpretation of and compliance with AQSIQ regulations.
Negotiated civil penalties for accused employee of admitted long-term FCPA violations where company paid more than $10 million in fines and entered into a multi-year compliance consent decree.
Obtained Department of Commerce ruling removing trademarked manufactured products from scope of long-standing and anti-dumping order, despite existing contrary scope ruling purporting to cover the same products.
Successful defense of federal court action to recognize and enforce arbitral award rendered by a provincial Chinese arbitration institution. Foreign arbitration awards are enforceable in the United States under the New York Convention and their enforceability is difficult to challenge. Defended on the basis of lack of due process because all communications from the arbitral proceeding were in Mandarin, a language that the client did not know. This was a very significant decision nationally and internationally.
Current international arbitration before the Singapore International Arbitration Centre involving significant claims arising out of failed manufacturing joint venture in India.
Obtained federal district court judgment dismissing New York Convention challenges to multimillion-dollar ICC arbitral award involving Belgian client's chemical manufacturing facility.
Arbitrated lumber sales contract dispute between U.S. buyer and Russian and Austrian sellers to successful resolution before International Arbitration Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber.
Successful Stockholm Chamber of Commerce product liability property damage arbitration on behalf of Beijing truck manufacturer under the U.S. Convention on the International Sale of Goods.
AAA International Center for Dispute Resolution arbitration between Saudi Arabian product distributor and U.S. manufacturer under Saudi Arabian government-sponsored form of unregistered distribution agreement.