Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

04/28/2022 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/28/2022 10:38

by Matthew R. Nicely, Daniel M. Witkowski, Julia K. Eppard, Sarah Sprinkle, Sydney Stringer

Matt represents clients across multiple industries in antidumping (AD), countervailing duty (CVD) and safeguard litigation, and provides counsel on the business implications of day-to-day trade and customs regulation. Relying on his knowledge of WTO agreements, Matt advises clients on whether actions taken by member governments comply with WTO agreements, on implementation procedures under U.S. law and on methods for resolving trade disputes, including through formal dispute settlement.

Matt represents clients before multiple U.S. agencies and U.S. courts, including in proceedings before the Department of Commerce (DOC), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), International Trade Commission (ITC) and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). He also represents clients in appeals before the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. His clients vary in scope and span the globe: governments, exporters of goods and services, importers, and producers and users of various metals, high-tech goods, auto parts, chemicals and many different consumer items from all over the world.

In addition to his remedies, policy and WTO work, Matt has experience in the full range of the U.S. trade regulatory regime, including export controls, economic sanctions, antiboycott and anticorruption laws.

As an adjunct law professor at American University Washington College of Law, Matt teaches a course called The U.S. Trade Regime and coaches the school's WTO moot court team.

He has participated in various pro bono matters over the years, including advising Guantanamo Bay detainees on their petitions for writ of habeas corpus.