Chemicals
Deep knowledge across the chemicals value chain
Combining strong industry knowledge with a commercial, user-friendly approach, our cross-practice team guides European and third country chemical companies and other key industry players through European Commission anti-dumping and other trade investigations, manages export control requirements and ensures sanctions compliance, and represents them on complex cartel and merger control cases.
We have the regulatory expertise to advise clients at all points of the value chain – manufacturers, importers, distributors and downstream users – on how to identify and assess the risks associated with products they manufacture, import and market in the EEA.
Our team is regarded as one of the leading specialists on the EU REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) regime, the Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulation (CLP) and the Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR), as well as on related environmental and safety rules.
We understand the regulatory framework at EU level and its interpretation at EU and EEA level
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Notable assignments
Representing Alcogroup on achieving successful closure of the European Commission investigation relating to the alleged ethanol benchmarks cartel.
Advising one of the two sampled exporting producers in the EU anti-dumping investigation on imports from Korea and Taiwan of ABS, an essential chemical raw material for many downstream industries.
Advising NYSE-listed Quaker Chemical on the EU merger control approval of its acquisition of rival Houghton International.
Advising the Dow Chemical Company in various anti-dumping proceedings initiated by the EU and Turkey including more recently, in an investigation into imports of Low Density Polyethylene from Saudi Arabia.
Advising a Japanese client on compliance with the EU REACH Regulation, including the applicable and future restrictions of substances of very high concern.
Representing producers of plasticizer, choline chloride, lysine, polyurethane foam and amino acids in several national and EU cartel cases.
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