Congratulations to WTC Marseille for hosting the remarkable Global Business Forum 2025! The event, held last week in the beautiful Mediterranean city of Marseille, offered a unique opportunity to enhance international partnerships, delve into evolving global markets, and highlight groundbreaking innovations. We’d like to extend our thanks to the Polish Chamber of Commerce and Industry in France for the invitation to be part of this significant gathering.
Appleton Luff is pleased to announce a strategic alliance with Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle LLP (“Curtis”), one of the world’s premier international law firms. Curtis, which traces its origins back to 1830, has long been recognized for its leadership in public international law, investor-State arbitration, international commercial arbitration, transnational litigation, international corporate transactions, and international tax. Curtis has its headquarters in New York, with offices in 17 other jurisdictions around the world: Almaty, Astana, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Houston, London, Mexico City, Milan, Muscat, Oman, Paris, Rome, Riyadh, and Washington D.C.
The law firm Appleton Luff is honored and delighted to participate in the NETVA (New Technology Venture Accelerator) seminar. NETVA is an excellence program dedicated to French startups focused on breakthrough innovation, known as "deeptech." This event is part of La Synapse, a strategic initiative aimed at accelerating French deeptech innovation along the transatlantic France-U.S. axis.
This seminar is organized by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs – Science and Technology Department of the French Embassy in the United States. It will take place on March 10 and 11 in Paris.
Appleton Luff is pleased to be again highly ranked for its international trade practice by Chambers Global 2025. The firm's practice was noted for its work in Asia-Pacific and Southeast Asia, and Ed Sim was ranked individually.
See https://chambers.com/department/appleton-luff-international-trade-wto-global-2:455:3:1:137470
Our partner Sylvain Poitras taught medical device law again at EPFL in Lausanne. Sylvain regularly teaches on this subject at EPFL and other institutions.
Appleton Luff is saddened by the passing of our partner Roberto Rios Herran after a brief illness. Roberto was with his family and friends, and our thoughts and prayers are with them.
We were blessed to have had Roberto as a partner for over 20 years. He was a fearless citizen of the world. We will do our best to continue his professional legacy through our words and actions.
Appleton Luff is saddened by the passing of our partner Patrick Macrory after a prolonged illness. Patrick was with his family and friends, and our thoughts and prayers are with them.
We are appreciative to have been his colleague both in the international trade bar for over 50 years, and as a partner for over 20 years. We will do our best to continue his professional legacy through our work.
We are pleased to announce that Marta Ledwos has been promoted to Partner at Appleton Luff International Lawyers. This decision was made during our annual Partners' meeting on October 10th and 11th in Paris.
After nearly 15 years of collaboration with David Luff and the Brussels office, Marta has consistently demonstrated dedication and skill, significantly contributing to the success of our firm. This promotion reflects her hard work and commitment to our clients and team.
Ed Sim was part of an Asia Foundation team that analyzed and reported on critical issues for the next US administration in Southeast Asia. The report can be downloaded here:https://lnkd.in/eH7gDx55
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.
