International / Cross-Border

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 Cross-Border Services for Canadian Companies 

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Attorneys in the International/Cross-Border Practice Group concentrate in a broad range of practice areas involving international business law, including in the following areas:

• Antidumping duty proceedings
• Antitrust (competition law, in many other countries)
• Bankruptcy/international creditors' issues
• Business litigation
• Canada/U.S. cross-border issues
• Customs and tariff matters
• Dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation
• Distribution agreements
• Domestic and foreign technology transfers and joint ventures
• Employee benefits (multinational employer issues)
• Executive compensation and estate planning for international corporate executives
• Export control matters
• Foreign subsidiaries
• Government relations
• Immigration
• Intellectual property
• International business practices audits
• International business law
• International technology and licensing
• International tax
• International trade
• Joint ventures
• Mergers and acquisitions involving foreign entities
• National security investigations (CFIUS investigations)
• Transportation
• U.S. Canada Free Trade Agreement and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) issues

We represent both foreign clients with personal or business dealings in the United States and domestic clients with business in foreign countries. We have extensive experience counseling U.S.-based businesses on the legal issues involved with entering and developing new markets for their goods and services in foreign countries.

Hodgson Russ also represents Canadian and international clients in resolving disputes with U.S.-based business partners, including in the federal and state courts. Our attorneys handle arbitrations and mediations before all domestic and international bodies and represent clients before numerous administrative agencies, both state and federal.

We provide legal services to clients in conjunction with U.S. government agency oversight of imported and exported commodities. Representative agencies are:

• Food and Drug Administration
• Fish and Wildlife Service
• Federal Communications Commission
• Department of Agriculture
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

  (in excess of 40 U.S. government agencies)

Our Toronto* office is the firm's first foreign office. In connection with the firm's Canadian/U.S. practice, senior members of the group are licensed as Foreign Legal Consultants in the Province of Ontario.

* Licensed Foreign Legal Consultants in Ontario. Practice restricted to U.S. law.