Elliot J. Feldman’s international practice concentrates on all forms of trade disputes and remedies affecting the movement of goods and services across international borders. He advises foreign governments, corporations and organizations on trade policy and international law, and litigates international trade, legal and investor-state disputes in all relevant forums, inside and outside the U.S., on both commercial international law and treaty interpretation. He has been a frequent legal adviser to the Government of Canada in World Trade Organization (WTO) cases and he has particular experience with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the new Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). Elliot founded and is the former director of the University Consortium for Research on North America at Harvard University.
Elliot has been ranked in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business since 2007, has been counsel to and has litigated on behalf of the People’s Republic of China and is frequently quoted in the foreign press on international trade with China. He has been the only outside counsel in the history of the International Boundary Commission. Elliot authored Inside the Minds: International Trade Law Best Practices in 2006, and his treatise for Aspen Publishers co-authored with a team of 33 BakerHostetler attorneys under his direction, Mergers & Acquisitions in the United States: A Practical Guide for Non-U.S. Buyers, was first published in 2010, with a Chinese-language edition published in 2011 and subsequently updated. Elliot has lectured on the firm’s mergers and acquisitions inbound foreign direct investment capability in Brazil, China, India, Japan and Washington, D.C. He is the author or co-author of seven books and in 2013 he coauthored the lead article on international trade and nonmarket economies in the American University Law Review. His client advice on the Softwood Lumber Agreement has been selected by the librarian of the Canadian House of Commons as a historic document.