We represent businesses in the proceedings that decide whether they can trade, and we build the frameworks that decide how they may hold data. Both are led from the first assessment through to implementation by the Director who set the strategy — there is no pitch team and no handover.
Anti-dumping work and privacy work look unrelated from outside. From inside they are the same discipline applied to different regimes — a factual record built to withstand an authority's scrutiny, assembled under a deadline that will not move. Two is what a firm can hold to that standard without handing the second one to someone junior.
01
Representation and strategy across anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard proceedings — from the day an investigation is initiated through questionnaires, verification and hearings to the determination and the reviews that follow it.
Investigations · Injury analysis · Sunset reviews
02
Compliance frameworks for the UAE PDPL, the GDPR and cross-border data flows — gap assessment, data mapping, the governance a regulator will accept, and the implementation that puts it into the business rather than into a binder.
UAE PDPL · GDPR · Transfer mapping
Before there is an engagement there is an assessment, and it is a real one. If the matter is not worth running we will say so — that answer has cost you nothing but the call.
01
A notice of initiation, a questionnaire with a deadline on it, a regulator's letter, or a board that has decided the data estate can no longer be left as it is. Send it as it stands. We do not need it tidied first.
Day one
02
Not an associate preparing a summary for someone senior to skim. The Director who would run the matter forms the view, and it is that view you hear back — within one business day.
Within 1 day
03
What is actually at stake, which deadlines are real, what the authority's practice suggests, and whether the outcome justifies the cost of pursuing it. Where it does not, we say that in the same call.
The assessment
04
A defined scope with the stages named, the fee basis agreed up front, and the point at which the mandate ends — which is implementation, not delivery of the advice.
The engagement
Whichever discipline your matter sits in, four things do not change about how it is run.
01
The person who assesses the matter signs the submission and answers the phone when the authority comes back. Continuity is the deliverable, not a courtesy.
02
A memorandum that reads well and cannot be filed is not a deliverable. Everything is assembled to survive contact with the authority that will rule on it.
03
Trade and privacy regimes both run on statutory clocks that do not move for anyone. The work plan is built backwards from the date, and the date is stated at the outset.
04
A determination or a framework only counts once it is operating inside the business. We stay until it is, and we say plainly what has to be reviewed and when.
If yours is not here, ask it directly — the Director answers it within one business day.
Because the standard we hold both to is expensive to hold. Trade remedy and privacy work are the same craft applied to different regimes — a factual record built for an authority, under a deadline that will not move. A third and fourth discipline would have to be run by someone other than the Director, and at that point the thing a client is buying stops being true.
The practice has been narrowed twice, both times to protect what remains.
The sixteen are the places we have appeared first-hand — matters run before the authority, not referrals passed to a local firm. Most cross-border matters still touch a regime we run even when the client does not sit in one of them, so it is worth asking. Where a matter genuinely falls outside, we say so rather than take it.
The initial assessment is not billed. Beyond it, the fee basis is agreed in writing before work starts and is set against a defined scope with the stages named — so the cost of the next stage is known before it is reached rather than after.
Proceedings that run on a statutory timetable are quoted by stage, because that is how the work actually arrives.
Frequently. In-house teams and general counsel bring us in for the specialist stretch of a matter — the questionnaire response, the verification visit, the transfer assessment — and keep the rest in house. We are equally willing to hand back a matter with a plan your existing advisers can run.
A senior team member replies within one business day, and the assessment usually follows in the same week. Where a deadline is already running — a questionnaire is a common one — say so in the first line of your message and it is treated accordingly.
Yes. Nothing you send us for an assessment is disclosed, and we run a conflicts check before taking instructions — if we cannot act, we tell you that and nothing further is retained.
Send the notice, the questionnaire or the regulator's letter as it stands. The Director reads it and tells you whether it is worth running — within one business day.
