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Matt has spent his entire legal career helping clients maintain access to U.S. and foreign markets for their goods and services. His clients include U.S. and foreign companies, as well as governments, who rely on him to advise them on the risks and opportunities presented by international trade regulatory regimes. His work regularly takes him all over the world, including to Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Matt devoted several years to representing companies and governments in Brazil, Mexico, and Japan, and spent two years living and working in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia) during the 1990s. His travels have given him valuable insight into the various cultural perspectives of these regions. He has represented multiple industries in trade remedy proceedings (antidumping, safeguards, countervailing duties) before administrative agencies, in appeals to U.S. courts, and in WTO dispute settlement. Matt also counsels clients on compliance with day-to-day regulation of goods, services, and investment moving across borders, including customs, export controls, economic sanctions, anti-boycott, and anti-bribery laws. Matt teaches international trade law as an adjunct professor at American University's Washington College of Law. He also serves in bar leadership roles, including as President of the Customs and International Trade Bar Association (CITBA), as Co-Chair of Georgetown's International Trade Update CLE, and as a member of the Court of International Trade's Advisory Committee on Rules.

Listed skills include International Trade Law, Competition Law, International Law, Litigation, and 14 others.