Naboth van den Broek is an international trade, investment, market access and EU lawyer and a member of the firm's Trade, Investment and Market Access Practice Group. He assists companies, associations and governments on the full range of international legal and policy challenges they face. He has extensive experience representing governments and private parties in WTO and other complex international dispute settlement proceedings. He also counsels clients on their global and transnational policy and legal strategies, with respect to market access, advocacy and compliance, and on EU law issues. He has been recognized as one of five 'rising stars under 40' in the international trade area and teaches International Trade and Investment law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Practice

Mr. van den Broek represents clients in WTO and other complex and large scale international and treaty-based dispute settlement and arbitration proceedings. He has been involved in more than three dozen WTO disputes, at the Panel, pre-Panel, Appellate Body and compliance stage, as amicus curiae, as well as in large-scale investment, commercial and other international disputes. Mr. van den Broek also advises clients on global market access, legislative and strategic policy issues, as well as on international and other cross-border negotiations and transactions, in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and elsewhere.

Mr. van den Broek's WTO dispute settlement experience includes acting as counsel to parties, third parties or the private sector in cases such as Argentina-Import Measures, China-Raw Materials, US- and EC-Aircraft, EC-IT Products, China-Publications and Audiovisual Products, China-IPR, China-Auto Parts, EC-Bananas, US-, EC- and Japan-DRAMS, US-Gambling, US-FSC, EC-Sugar and EC-Asbestos. His dispute settlement practice spans the full range of WTO issues, including subsidies, import and export licensing and quotas, energy and natural resources, services, technology, investment and local content issues, technical barriers to trade (TBT), sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures, Intellectual Property (TRIPS), customs, national-treatment and most favored nation issues, transparency, agriculture and government procurement. Beyond WTO dispute settlement per se, Mr. van den Broek has also advised clients under a range of other treaty- and contract-based dispute settlement and arbitration regimes, including with respect to investment; in the context of complex international and commercial arbitration proceedings; on a broad range of EU constitutional, regulatory, trade, and competition law issues, and with respect to global cartel, export control & sanctions, other compliance issues and investigations, and in trade remedies matters.

Mr. van den Broek also advises clients on global market access, legislative and strategic policy issues in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and elsewhere, as well as at the WTO, at the United Nations, as well as in a range of other international fora. He has advised companies, associations and governments on a broad range of bilateral, regional and global negotiations around the world, including trade negotiations, investment, environmental negotiations, energy and climate change, and he provides strategic and legal advice to clients on the use and development of WTO and other bilateral and multilateral trade and investment rules to open markets, resolve disputes and achieve their legislative, regulatory, public policy and commercial objectives. He frequently helps clients develop and implement global and transnational advocacy and policy strategies in a range of sectors and supported by WTO and/or other international or domestic law regimes.

Beyond his WTO and market access work for governments, trade associations and private companies, Mr. van den Broek also acts as strategic and legal counsel to a coalition of large technology companies, advising them on global Intellectual Property, advanced manufacturing, energy and technology issues, in China, and in the context of global, regional and bilateral trade and investment negotiations, including the Transpacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations, in the UN, and at the UNFCCC.

In the past few years, Mr. van den Broek was twice named as a 'rising star under 40' by Law360 in the international trade area. He is also recommended by Legal500 and other publications. He is a Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law and an adjunct professor of international trade and investment at Georgetown University Law Center.