Profile: Scott D Andersen

Trade and Customs

Biography: Trade & Customs

Scott Andersen is the managing partner of Sidley's Geneva office. His practice focuses on the use of WTO rules to resolve international trade disputes. This includes working with companies, trade associations and governments to identify and protect rights under WTO rules to address market access barriers and unfair conditions of competition without proceeding to formal WTO dispute settlement. Mr Andersen is also involved in the litigation and enforcement of matters submitted to WTO dispute settlement panels.

Mr Andersen also litigates disputes in the area of antidumping, investment, intellectual property and services. Between 1995 and 2000, Mr Andersen was the legal adviser to the US Mission to the WTO in Geneva, where he represented the US in more than 30 disputes before the WTO, before panels and the appellate body. He was the Geneva USTR negotiator for environment, investment, balance of payments, fishing subsidies and customs valuation issues between 1996 and 2000.

Before his move to Geneva, Mr Andersen worked for five years at the US International Trade Commission, focusing on anti-dumping and intellectual property issues and participating in NAFTA investment negotiations. Between 1980 and 1988, he litigated contract, commodities and security fraud cases in US federal courts.

His publications include "Administration of Evidence in WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings", in Key Issues in WTO Dispute Settlement, The First 10 Years World Trade Organization, Cambridge Press (edited by Rufus Yerxa and Bruce Wilson), 2005; and "Hedging Hopes with Fears In China's Accession to the World Trade Organization, The Transitional Special-Product Safeguard for Chinese Exports", Journal of World Intellectual Property, May 2002.