Naboth van den Broek is an international trade, investment and market access lawyer. Mr. van den Broek's practice focuses on international dispute settlement, compliance and policy issues. He has particular experience representing clients in complex international trade and investment disputes at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and under other bilateral, regional and multilateral trade and investment treaties. He also assists companies and governments in dealing with the full range of other international policy, market access and investment issues they face, both inward and outward facing, as well as trade and investment-related compliance, enforcement and investigations. Mr. van den Broek co-founded and helps lead the firm's multidisciplinary International Group.
Mr. van den Broek is recognized as a leading practitioner in the international trade and investment area. He is also a Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of International Economic Law and adjunct professor of International Trade and Investment Law at Georgetown University Law Center.
Practice
Unique among private practitioners, Mr. van den Broek has been involved in almost four dozen WTO disputes, as well as in large-scale investment, commercial and other international disputes. 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. 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 bilateral and regional investment treaty protection; in international commercial arbitration; on EU constitutional, regulatory, trade and competition law issues; and with respect to global cartel, export control and sanctions, investment, and other compliance and enforcement issues.
Mr. van den Broek also advises clients on global market access, legislative and strategic policy and compliance issues in Europe, Asia, North and South America, and elsewhere, as well as at the WTO, at the United Nations, and 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 has helped 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 the trade and investment space, he also has particular experience working on global energy issues, global technology and innovation policy, as well as aviation, aeronautics and space.