Through its international trade and investment team, Hogan Lovells International LLP offers leading expertise on the trade law implications of EU sanctions, subsidies, and sustainability policy and regulation. An expert on trade and regulatory matters, practice head Lourdes Catrain boasts a diverse practice and is comfortable advising clients across sectors as distinct as energy and resources, consumer goods, and life sciences. Catrain assists major multinational clients with sanctions and export controls, WTO compliance, trade defence measures, and investment screening.

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Key clients

  • International Fresh Produce Association
  • Pfizer
  • LetterOne
  • Valero
  • Companhia Nacional Siderurgica

Work highlights

  • Represented Valero Energy Ltd successfully in the EU anti-circumvention investigation by the European Commission, resulting in the termination of the UK biodiesel imports investigation.
  • Advising LetterOne on, among others, the sanctions and FDI aspects $11.2bn sale of its Wintershall Dea assets to Harbour Energy.
  • Supporting a global food company on a broad range of sanctions and export control issues associated with its continued operations in Russia.

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Lourdes Catrain