Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has added a four-person team to its customs and international trade practice from Hunton & Williams. Joining the firm’s Washington D.C. office are partners William A. Silverman and Douglas J. Heffner; counsel Richard P. Ferrin; and Eric L. Johnson as a senior international trade analyst.
The team focuses its practice primarily on international trade remedies litigation, concentrating on antidumping and countervailing duty investigations and administrative review proceedings. In addition, the practice involves representing clients in “sunset” reviews of antidumping and countervailing duty orders, as well as Section 201 “safeguard” proceedings under the Trade Act of 1974.
Clients include foreign manufacturing firms and international trading companies that are respondents in trade investigations, and U.S. companies that are petitioners in trade investigations.
“The addition of this well-respected team in Washington allows us to offer our clients additional resources in an area that will only become more important to them as the economy improves and global competition continues to increase,” said Alfred W. Putnam, Jr., Drinker Biddle’s chairman.
Drinker Biddle & Reath is a national law firm with 675 lawyers in 12 offices.