EU Law and Practice Contributed by: Edward Borovikov, Laurens Engelen, Xiaoyi Tang and Semen Medvedkov, Dentons
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Authors
Edward Borovikov is the co-managing partner at Dentons Belgium. Edward is recognised as one of the leading international trade lawyers in Europe and worldwide, with substantial experience in issues
Xiaoyi Tang is a partner in Dentons’ Brussels office. Xiaoyi has more than 20 years’ working experience in advising international clients on trade, competition, sanctions, government affairs and cross-border mergers and
of global trade and investment, cross-border commercial regulations and international trade policy. He has in-depth experience with WTO, EU and Eurasian Economic Union trade and competition laws and practice, trade policy and international trade, and investment negotiations, including those on trade liberalisation and WTO accession. Edward’s authoritative counsel to clients on issues of international trade and competition law reflects a valuable combination of legal skill and knowledge, broad economic understanding and well-informed diplomatic insight.
acquisitions. He specialises in international trade remedy laws, WTO agreements and investment incentive regulations. He combines his legal knowledge with industrial policy dynamics to offer clients practical and strategic solutions. He is particularly well recognised in anti-dumping, anti- subsidy and safeguard proceedings, having successfully represented clients in high-profile trade remedy cases initiated all over the world, involving both industrial and renewable energy products. Xiaoyi is a regular speaker at international conferences for trade and cross-border transaction issues.
Laurens Engelen is a partner in Dentons’ Brussels office. As a member of the firm’s corporate and international trade practice groups, Laurens advises a variety of clients across sectors on domestic and
Semen Medvedkov is a legal consultant in Dentons’ Brussels office and a member of the international trade and customs practice group. Since 2020, Semen has been advising on various trade and customs matters
cross-border M&A transactions, the structuring of joint ventures and venture capital deals. In addition, Laurens devotes a significant portion of his practice to advising European and international clients on compliance with EU sanctions and export control regulations, including a six-month secondment at an international client’s global sanctions and export controls department. His experience in advising on compliance with sanctions makes Laurens ideally placed to ensure that the transactions of the firm that he advises on are conducted in compliance with applicable laws.
in different jurisdictions, including the European Union, Eurasian Economic Union/Russia, Turkey and India, among others. His experience extends to WTO rules, customs, trade policy, export controls and sanctions. Semen graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, where he gained extensive knowledge of international economics and trade policy. He also holds an LLM in International Economic Law and Policy from the University of Barcelona and an LLM in International Business Law from Université Libre de Bruxelles.
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