Appleton Luff partner Marta Ledwos delivered on-site training on international Rules of Origin practices to customs officials of Uzbekistan in September 2025.
Appleton Luff is honored to be highly rated by Chambers for international trade in Asia Pacific and Southeast Asia. Our partner Ed Sim has been ranked for 19 years, the most of any individual lawyer in the ratings.
On 4 December 2025 Arthur Appleton was invited to discuss the economic implications of WTO Membership for Uzbekistan at a meeting of Uzbekistan's Liberal Democratic Party (UzLiDeP).
On 3-4 December, Arthur Appleton participated in the WTO Chairs Program in Tashkent sponsored by the University of World Economy and Diplomacy. Many thanks to UWED for the gracious hospitality and the lively participation! With so many talented students, Uzbekistan's future looks good.
Our partner Sylvain Poitras participated in the 20th annual Bohemian Medical Device Summit in Prague on 4-5 December with several top-notch panels and multiple discussions assessing medtech industry trends.
Arthur Appleton presented at Dhirubhai Ambani University on international trade policy and strategies, November 12-14. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gpMeuzDDmP0
Our partner, Arthur Appleton, spent three days at Kalutara on behalf of UNDP and the Graduate Institute conducting an Executive Education program for Sri Lanka's Attorneys General.
Arthur Appleton presented at a Senior Executive Development Program on Global Trade Strategies in a program organized by Dhirubhai Ambani University, the International Law Institute, and the ELP Law Firm on November 12-14.
Arthur Appleton provided executive education courses on Trade in Serivces and on EU Investment Law to European corporate executives and diplomats at the College of Europe.
Arthur Appleton chaired a panel at the 2026 World Trade Forum: Coping with Chaos: Sustainnig the Rules-based Trade Order. The panel members who explored plurilateral cooperation were: Bernard Hoekman, Rohit Ticku, Axel Berger and Yang Guohua.
Our Partner and Life Science Practice Head Sylvain Poitras participated yesterday in the Innovation Day at SFITS, the Swiss Foundation for Innovation and Training in Surgery at the University of Geneva Hospital (HUG) with a number of promising medical technologies on display. SFITS carries exceptional surgery training expertise and equipments for use by professionals and industry.
Our partner in Gibraltar, @Lloyd DeVincenzi, was recently interviewed by @Abacus Financial Services and offered his perspectives on the imminent treaty between the UK and the EU on post-Brexit trade and border fluidity arrangements for the territory. Lloyd also spoke about the territory’s evaluation under MONEYVAL.
On September 3, David Luff, Ed Sim, Emily Lawson and Marta Ledwos conducted a webinar on US and EU rules of origin affecting medtech products for the members of Medtech Europe. The webinar included discussion of the U.S. reciprocal tariffs and the Nairobi Protocol.
In July 2025,Marta Ledwos, Paris Partner, provided training on“Strategies for Entering the French Market for Innovative U.S. Startups and SMEs”during the introductory seminar of theStart in France program, organized byLa Synapse, an initiative launched by theFrench Embassy in the United Statesto support the transatlantic acceleration of Deeptech.
Our partner Sylvain Poitras gave a talk today providing tips to medtech SMEs at MassChallenge Switzerland in Lausanne. Mass Challenge is one the world's largest nonprofit company incubators.
We are pleased to announce that Frank Morgan has joined Appleton Luff International Lawyers as a partner in the Washington, D.C. Office.
Most recently, Frank served as an Attorney Advisor in the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. International Trade Commission. Prior to that Frank had his own firm (Trade Law Defense) and was an attorney at White & Case LLP for fourteen years.
