Alan Yanovich
Partner
Areas of Focus
- International Trade
- International Trade Policy
- Sovereign Governments
- Trade Remedy Litigation
- World Trade Organization (WTO) Dispute Resolution & Counseling
- Technology
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
- Represents foreign governments and multinational corporations on disputes before the WTO and other international dispute-resolution bodies.
- Spent 12 years as a counselor at the WTO Appellate Body.
- Served as a legal advisor at the General Secretariat of the Andean Community and as a commercial secretary at the Colombian Government Trade Bureau.
Alan Yanovich advises foreign governments and multinational corporations on litigation of disputes before the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other international dispute-resolution bodies. His work encompasses international business and policy issues, legislation, regulation and interagency policy formation.
Alan has extensive experience in international trade and investment matters at the multilateral, regional and bilateral levels. He spent twelve years at the WTO Appellate Body, the WTO’s highest tribunal. As a counselor at the Appellate Body Secretariat, he provided advice on procedural and substantive issues to the members of the Appellate Body and was responsible for supervising all case management aspects of an appeal.
He was a co-lead lawyer in the two largest and most complex appeals—Airbus and Boeing—and in the appeal of the first dispute brought to the WTO involving government support policies in the renewable energy sector. In addition, he worked on more than a dozen other appeals covering trade remedies, state-trading enterprises, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical regulations and international standards, agricultural subsidies, internal taxes and intellectual property issues. His duties at the WTO also included conducting specialized training activities on the WTO’s rules and dispute settlement procedures for government officials around the globe.
Between 1997 and 2001, Alan was a legal advisor at the General Secretariat of the Andean Community. Prior to that, he served as a commercial secretary at the Colombian Government Trade Bureau.
Alan has engaged in numerous research activities relating to the multilateral trading system and regional trade agreements. He is the co-author of one of the most comprehensive studies of dispute settlement mechanisms in regional trade agreements, and he is the author of an article on the WTO’s rules relating to the energy sector. He also authored several articles on WTO dispute settlement.
LanguagesSpanish
Spanish
EducationJ.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1996
B.A., Georgetown University, 1993
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1996
B.A., Georgetown University, 1993
Bar AdmissionsFlorida
Florida
- The Legal 500 EMEA, WTO, Switzerland, 2015 to 2022.
- Chambers Europe and Chambers Global, International Trade/WTO, Switzerland, 2016 to 2022.
- Best Lawyers Switzerland, Geneva “Lawyer of the Year” for Trade Law in 2020.
- Best Lawyers Switzerland, Trade Law.
- Counselor, Appellate Body Secretariat, WTO.
- Legal advisor, General Secretariat of the Andean Community.
- Commercial secretary, Colombian Government Trade Bureau.