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Anna Claudia Coelho Dias

+32 2 231 11 40 anna.dias@gide.com

Position

Anna Claudia Coelho Dias specialises in international trade law and in European competition law. She has in-depth experience of trade defence instruments (anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard procedures) and WTO law.

Anna also advises companies and governments on regulatory issues arising from globalisation, including market access, regulatory barriers, discriminatory practices, export control, free-trade agreements, etc. As regards trade defence, Anna represents sectors of the European industry when they face unfair international competition and wish to file a complaint with the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission. She also represents European and non-European clients who are targeted by trade defence investigations initiated by competitors before third-country authorities such as the United States, China, Brazil, Morocco, India, Russia, Jordan or Turkey.

Anna also acts in disputes brought before the EU Court of Justice and the WTO by major players in several industrial sectors (energy, steel, paper, food processing, etc.).

Languages

French, English, Spanish and Portuguese

Education

Anna holds a Master’s degree in International Business Law from Paris I’ Panthéon-Sorbonne University (2011), an LL.M. from Columbia University (2010), and a Master’s degree in law from Uniceub Brasília University (2006).

Admitted to the Paris and Brasília Bars (respectively in 2006 and 2015).