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Mr. van den Broek is a special counsel in the firm’s Regulatory and Government Affairs Department, and a member of the European Regulatory, International Trade, Investment and Market Access, and Public Policy and Strategy Practice Groups. He represents clients with respect to a wide range of international trade, investment and regulatory impediments to accessing foreign markets, in international dispute settlement proceedings, particularly the WTO, and on transatlantic and global trade and other international policy issues and was named one of 10 'rising stars under 40' in the international trade area by Law360.
Practice
Mr. van den Broek represents clients in international dispute settlement proceedings, particularly the WTO, and on transatlantic and global trade, investment and other international policy, strategy and legal issues.
In the area of dispute settlement and international litigation, Mr. van den Broek’s practice focuses on WTO and other international trade and investment disputes. He has been involved in many of the most prominent WTO disputes and at both the Panel, pre-Panel, Appellate Body and compliance stage. This includes acting as counsel to parties, third parties or the private sector in China Car Parts, China IPR, EC Biotech, US FSC, India Additional Duties, the US and EC Aircraft cases, China Raw Materials and several other major WTO disputes. He has represented WTO Member governments, companies, and associations and has also advised clients under NAFTA rules, including with respect to investment, in legal challenges before the EU Member State authorities, the European Commission and the European Court of Justice, under Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), and in the context of international arbitration proceedings.
Mr. van den Broek also assists companies and associations in developing and implementing broad-based market access, government relations, legislative and policy strategies. He acts as strategic and legal counsel to a coalition of large technology companies, advising them on global Intellectual Property and climate change issues; has advised companies and governments on bilateral and multilateral trade and investment negotiations in the EU and elsewhere; and advises companies and associations on a range of other EU, US and international legal and strategic challenges in the energy, technology, financial services, consumer products, life sciences, chemicals, communications and aerospace sectors, and on issues ranging from the relationship between global climate change and international trade rules, to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), subsidies, regulatory barriers, export control, environment, and investment.
Past experience and professional activities
Prior to joining WilmerHale, Mr. van den Broek was an attorney in the EU and WTO group of a major European law firm, where he worked in the Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam offices and where his practice focused on the full range of European trade, competition, regulatory and export control and sanctions work. Mr. van den Broek studied law at Leiden University in The Netherlands. He focused on international political economy and international relations at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität in Bonn and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and obtained an LLM degree at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC where he was a Fulbright student, fellow of the Institute of International Economic Law and graduate assistant to its director, Prof. John H. Jackson. Mr. van den Broek speaks English, Dutch, French, German and basic Spanish and has published and spoken on a range of international legal and policy issues.
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