Silicon Valley Partner Elizabeth Chien-Hale was the co-chair of the 2024 Annual Meeting of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association. She was delighted to have the opportunity to moderate this panel of distinguished speakers from academia and the government to discuss the future of the World Trade Organization during the Annual Meeting.
Appleton Luff congratulates Comoros and Timor-Leste as the newest members of the World Trade Organization! David Luff and Roberto Rios advised the Comoros on its accession, while Ed Sim advised Timor-Leste on its accession.
Marta Ledwos of our Paris office participated last Wednesday in Market Access Day in Brussels orgniazed by hub.brussels, in collaboration with Enterprise Europe Network, VLAIO, Flanders Investment & Trade, AWEX, BECI, FPS Foreign Affairs, and DG TRADE (European Commission).
Sylvain Poitras of our Geneva office attended the Medtech MVP conference in Minneapolis, where he highlighted our fractional legal counsel model supporting US medtech SMEs deploy their operations internationally.
Appleton Luff is now part of the Expert Group on Foreign Trade of Swiss Medtech, the Swiss medical device industry association thanks to the leadership of Nicolas Panzer (Switzerland Global Enterprise). Insightful talk on 23 May on the Chinese medtech market by Marshall Ken (Fiducia) with a good follow up discussion by a panel with Dirk Reuter (Sigvaris Group) and Joël Poget (CEO, Bien Air)
Marta Ledwos of our Paris office participated in the sixteenth edition of the International Economic Forum on Latin America and Caribbean, "Scaling Up Financing for Development" at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris.
For a second consecutive year the head of our Paris office Marta Ledwos is lecturing on the law of international contracts and on negotiations to MBA students in Paris.
Silicon Valley partner Elizabeth Chien-Hale is grateful for ABA International Law Section's support for my Embassy Night idea during the Annual Meeting. Elizabeth, along with help of many in the Section (Section Chair David Schwartz, Meeting Director Angela Benson and many other volunteers), organized fun and informative tours of the Indonesian Embassy, Mexican Embassy, and the Italian Embassy.
Marta Ledwos, the Head of Appleton Luff Paris Office, provided in January and Ferbuary 2024 interactive workshops on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to MBA students in the e-commerce major at ESG in Paris. The focus was on the GDPR compliance issues, challenges and good practices of e-commerce businesses.
Elizabeth spoke on privacy and data protection laws, including topics such as the intersection of data protection and IP laws, an overview of the growing list of consumer data protection laws in the U.S. states, and China's growing cybersecurity and data transfer laws.
Appleton Luff partners Jay Nee and Kelly Slater led a team that successfully obtained a 0% antidumping duty rate for our client Ton Yi Industrial Corporation, a member of the Uni-President group of Taiwan. This ends the antidumping investigation for Ton Yi.
Appleton Luff partners Elizabeth Chien-Hale and Jay Nee met with the Office of Trade Negotiations of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China, discussing trade and investment topics.
Appleton Luff partners Kelly Slater and Ed Sim helped Malaysian clients achieve 0% antidumping duty rates from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Our clients Wei Dat Sdn Bhd (for PC Strand) and PMB Silicon Sdn Bhd (for Silicon Metal) received 0% rates after antidumping adminisrative reviews concluded in December 2023.
Our partner Sylvain Poitras reports a memorable visit to Beijing last week during which he delivered two talks on legal support to cross-border medtech operations and investments to various audiences at the kind invitation of CCPIT, the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and of CCPIT IP, the oldest full-service intellectual property law firm in China.
A delegation from the CNIPA-US Bar Liaison Council visited Beijing this week. Silicon Valley Partner Elizabeth Chien-Hale is the current Chair of the Liaison Council. Here is a photo with China National IP Administration Deputy Commissioner PengQi LU.
Appleton Luff wishes colleagues, clients, friends, and students a Happy New Year! We also announce the opening of our Paris office headed by our newly elevated counsel Marta Ledwos.
Our partner Sylvain Poitras lectured on medical device law at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) on 21 November 2023, addressing various regulatory, contractual and anti-bribery issues in a cross-border perspective including whether ChatGPT, Med-PaLM 2 and other AI tools should be considered to be regulated medical devices in need in compliance with applicable requirements such as CE-marking under the EU system.
Our client PJSC Stalkanat of Odesa, Ukraine, successfully obtained a 0% (no-dumping) rate from the US Department of Commerce (DOC) for their exports of PC Strand to the United States. The DOC's antidumping administrative review recognized the unique challenges of exporting from Ukraine during the Russian invasion and Stalkanat's fair pricing. Stalkanat was represented by Anzhela Mahkinova of Sayenko Kharenko and Kelly Slater and Ed Sim of Appleton Luff. Slava Ukraine!
When one considers the WTO's present framework, one must ask whether the global trading system's presumptive guardian is approaching an evolutionary dead-end. No matter how difficult, the WTO must reform to survive, and this can only be done by identifying the system’s shortcomings and ways to tackle them.
