Alan M Dunn

Mr Dunn is a partner in the firm and has practiced international trade law since 1980. He is a former US Assistant Secretary of Commerce and served as one of the lead US negotiators with Mexico and Canada in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations, and in the multilateral GATT Uruguay Round negotiations, which established the World Trade Organization (WTO), as well as in negotiations to resolve a number of sectoral trade disputes. He served as administrator of US anti-dumping and countervailing duty laws, as well as several other US trade programmes, and was among the senior US officials responsible for forming and implementing trade-related policy. Mr Dunn has extensive expertise in international policy-making, negotiations, trade remedies, economic sanctions and embargoes, export controls, market access and other laws related to trade. He has represented numerous corporations and sovereigns in various types of trade actions before the governments of the US and other nations, and is a frequent speaker on international trade issues. He also serves as a member of the US State Department Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy (ACIEP) Sanctions Subcommittee. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.