Hunton & Williams Further Expands Global Trade Practice

Hunton & Williams Further Expands Global Trade Practice

May 09, 2006

Edmund Sim and Legal Team join firm in Asia, United States

    SINGAPORE, May 9 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Hunton &
Williams LLP today announced the arrival of an Asia-based
international trade practice group led by Edmund Sim, a new
partner in the Singapore office. The team of lawyers and
legal professionals focuses on trade remedies and trade
policy issues, including antidumping, countervailing duty,
WTO, free trade agreements, Section 301, safeguards,
customs, foreign investment, intellectual property,
antitrust, competition and other issues. The new team joins
the firm's prominent international trade practice group
based in Washington and Brussels.

    "Ed Sim and his team greatly expand our ability to
serve clients throughout the region," said Edward B.
Koehler, managing partner of the Hunton & Williams
offices in Asia. "Asia exporters and governments face
increasingly complex trade issues that require continuing,
on-site assistance. Ed's internationally recognized trade
group provides this assistance."

    Based in Singapore, Mr. Sim represents exporters and
governments in international trade disputes between Asia
and Latin America, Canada, Africa, Europe and the United
States, and within Asia itself. He has participated in more
than 100 antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings
around the world. Mr. Sim was formerly a partner in the
Singapore office of White & Case and did his Associate
training in Washington, DC. He attended Dartmouth College
and the University of Michigan Law School. While attending
college and law school, Mr. Sim worked in the Office of US
Vice President George Bush and the General Counsel's Office
of the US Department of the Treasury and as a research
assistant to Professor John H Jackson.

    The legal team accompanying Mr. Sim includes: 

    Derek Loh, a graduate of National University of
Singapore, resident in the Singapore office; 

    Eric Wang, a graduate of Columbia University and
Soochow University, resident in the Singapore office; 

    Jay Nee, a graduate of Georgetown University and
Soochow University, resident in the Washington DC office; 

    Wiwat Sukkamonsantiporn, a graduate of Chulalongkorn
University, resident in the Bangkok office; 

    and Arlen Cheng, a graduate of Soochow University,
resident in the Beijing office.

    About Hunton & Williams

    Hunton & Williams LLP provides legal services to
corporations, financial institutions, governments and
individuals as well as a broad array of other entities.
Since its establishment in 1901, Hunton & Williams has
grown to more than 850 attorneys serving clients in 100
countries from 17 offices around the world. While Hunton
& Williams' practice has a particular emphasis on
commercial litigation, corporate and structured finance,
corporate transactions, energy and environmental law,
governmental relations and intellectual property, the
firm's depth and breadth of experience extends to more than
60 separate practice areas.

    For more information, please contact:

     Kristen Chatterton, Senior Administrator, 
     Communications Department of Hunton & Williams
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail] 

SOURCE  Hunton & Williams LLP