International trade

The international trade landscape is changing and becoming increasingly complex. We help clients to navigate these challenges and get the best out of cross-border trade opportunities.

Our international trade practice brings together our team’s experience working in and for government, private practice, diplomatic missions, and international organisations. Our diverse team includes trade lawyers from the United Kingdom, United States, India, Australia, and New Zealand.

We have extensive knowledge of sovereign trade regimes, which ensures we are ideally positioned to further our clients’ interests and deliver strategic advice based on government policy and shifting geopolitical considerations. Our breadth of experience delivers unique insights on trade negotiations, disputes, and trade policy.

We advise on international agreements (including free trade agreements (FTAs)), regulatory barriers to trade, supply chain risks, trade remedies, export controls, sanctions, international regulatory due diligence, and investment structuring, enabling us to support clients to navigate legal and regulatory challenges across markets.

TLT is currently appointed to Lot 1 and 2 of the UK Government’s inaugural Trade Law Panel, and we have been appointed as external advisers for a number of FTA negotiations.

Our team has played a proud role supporting the UK Government in pioneering a new trade landscape post Brexit. We have unprecedented insight into UK trade and negotiation practice and its interdependence with policy and regulation.

• Advising the UK Government on the UK’s accession to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
• Advising the UK Government on its negotiation of FTAs with Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, India, and the Gulf Cooperation Council
• Advising a sovereign state on a multilateral climate finance project to leverage private sector investment for the benefit of developing forest nations across the world
• Advising multiple clients, both UK Governmental departments and private entities, on new legislation in response to Brexit and how to adapt to changes in the post-Brexit UK internal market
• Advising sovereign governments on trade disputes, including a long-standing dispute at the World Trade Organization concerning complex industrial subsidy issues
• Advising several UK public bodies on the application of UK export control legislation including in relation to dual-use goods and cross-border transfers of data.