John R Magnus

Mr. Magnus has been an active trade practitioner for 18 years, serving as external counsel to domestic and foreign firms and industry coalitions in sectors such as steel, forest products, chemicals, microelectronics, aerospace, textiles/apparel, photographic materials, insurance, beverage alcohol, machine tools, telecommunications, motion pictures and cable television. He advises and represents clients on multilateral negotiations and WTO disputes; on regional and bilateral trade initiatives; on U.S. trade legislation and Congressional oversight activities; on high-profile market access cases involving goods and services; on foreign governments' trade regimes and industrial policy measures; and on customs and compliance issues. He also advises foreign governments on their trade regimes and implementation of WTO rules. Mr. Magnus has litigated numerous antidumping, countervailing duty, and other import-related cases before the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. International Trade Commission, as well as their reviewing courts and binational panels. He has also handled Section 301 market access cases before the Office of U.S. Trade Representative, and helped to defend U.S. measures, and prosecute U.S. complaints, in numerous GATT/WTO dispute settlement proceedings. Mr. Magnus has a secondary practice niche in antitrust, advising clients on domestic and (especially) international antitrust policy and enforcement issues. He has studied and written extensively on foreign antitrust and state aid control regimes as well as efforts toward multilateral competition rules and cooperative enforcement. From 1990-2004, Mr. Magnus was associated with Dewey Ballantine LLP and a core member of its Washington, DC-based international trade practice group. He was an equity partner in the firm from 2000-2004.