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Trade, Sanctions & Investment

Cross-border trade is regulated at every step. We help exporters, importers and investors navigate EU sanctions, dual-use controls, trade defence and investment protection.

The firm advises on the EU's restrictive measures and export-control regimes, on anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard proceedings before the Commission, and on the protection of foreign investments under bilateral treaties and the Energy Charter Treaty.

Nikos Korogiannakis chaired the Council's Trade Policy Committee (Investment) during the Greek Presidency in 2014 and has advised the Greek Government on investor-state dispute settlement, an insider's view of how EU trade and investment policy is made.

Areas covered

EU sanctions & restrictive measures

Screening, licensing and derogations, ownership and control analysis, delisting applications, enforcement defence.

Export controls & dual-use

Classification, licences under Regulation (EU) 2021/821, internal compliance programmes.

Trade defence

Anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard investigations; representation of exporters, importers and Union producers.

Customs & origin

Classification and valuation disputes, preferential origin, customs litigation.

Investment protection

Treaty planning, investor-state dispute settlement, EU-law aspects of intra-EU investment.

International commercial contracts

Distribution, agency and supply agreements across borders; governing law and jurisdiction.

How we help

  • Sanctions and export-control health-checks with a practical risk map for your transactions.
  • Representation in trade defence investigations from questionnaire to definitive measures and court review.
  • Structuring of investments to secure treaty protection before the dispute arises.
  • Coordination with customs brokers, forwarders and local counsel in the destination market.

Discuss your matter with a partner

Initial consultations are held at our Brussels office, by video call or by telephone, in English, French or Greek. Tell us briefly what is at stake and we will come back to you within one business day.