Margaret Chisholm Marsh represents domestic industries in a number of long-standing antidumping proceedings, including suspension agreements, before the U.S. Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission.
Peggy also acts on behalf of foreign governments and producers in other antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings, advising on litigation strategies, and represents clients in appellate proceedings in both U.S. trade courts and World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement proceedings. She also counsels clients on a variety of other international trade matters, including trade policy and negotiations, WTO law, trade sanctions, foreign investment rules, customs and trade regulation, and multilateral affairs.
During her residency in Akin Gump’s Brussels office, Peggy advised a variety of U.S. clients on the development and implementation of EU legislation, especially as it related to the digital economy. She focused on the liberalization of the EU telecommunications sector, e-commerce regulations, and EU trade policy and regulation. Peggy also counseled clients on EU regulation of certain marking, transport, industrial, consumer and labor issues.
Before joining Akin Gump, Peggy served as a research associate at the National Economic Commission, a blue-ribbon panel chaired by Robert S. Strauss and Drew Lewis, chartered by Congress to draft a deficit reduction plan.
For two years, Peggy studied in Paris at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and at the Sorbonne. During law school, she worked in Washington and in Tallinn, Estonia, with a team led by the Estonian minister of justice to assist Estonia in its promulgation of laws compatible with a market-based economy.
Experience:
- Has a robust pro bono practice.
- Represents U.S. and foreign producers in various trade remedy proceedings.
Representative Work:
- Represented U.S. domestic uranium producers in an ongoing U.S. antidumping suspension agreement concerning uranium products from the Russian Federation and in relation to the former U.S.-Russia Agreement on Highly Enriched Uranium.
- Counseled U.S. nitrogen fertilizer producers in ongoing antidumping proceedings concerning urea and solid ammonium nitrate from Ukraine and the Russian Federation.
- Advised domestic producers in trade policy negotiations concerning WTO matters and free trade agreements.
Pro Bono Matters:
- Successfully secured asylum for a family from Sudan and Chad in the affirmative asylum application process before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services bureau.
- Successfully obtained Social Security benefits for a man disabled by AIDS complications.
Affiliations:
- Member, Board of Trustees, American Councils for International Education, Washington, D.C.
- Member, Board of Trustees, St. Mary’s Foundation, Arlington, Virginia.
Education:
- J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1994
- B.S., Smith College, cum laude, 1987
Bar Admissions:
- District of Columbia
Cost
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