King & Spalding has provided the highest caliber of legal services to our clients for over 125 years and is continuing this legacy with its new office in Geneva, Switzerland. The expansion to Geneva is part of the firm’s long-term strategy to build the firm through investment in high-value, leading practices. The Geneva office represents a logical expansion of King & Spalding’s International Trade and WTO Practice, which is already one of the largest and most sophisticated in the world. The group received the Chambers USA Award for Excellence in 2008 and 2009 for its pre-eminence and noteworthy achievements over the past year, including outstanding work, impressive strategic growth, and excellence in client service.
As home to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Geneva office will focus on WTO counseling and negotiations and WTO dispute settlement proceedings. The office will also provide strategic international trade and investment counseling, particularly in the market access area, as well as advice on more traditional international trade remedy proceedings (anti-dumping and anti-subsidy) around the world.
The establishment of the office was made possible with the addition of Daniel Crosby, who joins the new office from a local Geneva firm. Mr. Crosby has assisted global companies and national governments in trade-related legal matters for more than 17 years, including 10 years in Geneva. He represents a diverse group of Middle Eastern, U.S., European, and Russian clients in trade and investment-related matters and has particular expertise in energy-related trade policy issues and market access for a variety of services sectors. He speaks English, Russian, Hungarian, and French.
The office will be managed by Stephen Orava, a partner in the International Trade Group based in Washington, D.C. He will divide his time between the Washington and Geneva offices. Mr. Orava has substantial experience in WTO dispute settlement proceedings, market access strategies, trade remedies, and trade-related aspects of climate change.
Also resident in Geneva is Joost Pauwelyn, a world-renowned expert on WTO and public international law, who has been a senior advisor to King & Spalding in Geneva since September 2007. Mr. Pauwelyn is a Professor of International Economic Law and WTO Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and was formerly an official with the WTO’s Legal Affairs Division and the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat.
