Year of the Snake
WIT-NC’s Annual Lunar New Year Program with Baker McKenzie
February 12, 2025
5:00 - 8:00 p.m. PT
CLE and CCS/MCS/CES/MES/LCB Credits Pending
Registration opens soon
Welcome to the Year of the Snake! WIT-NC invites you to join us at Intel for one of our most-loved events, our annual evening with longtime WIT-NC sponsor Baker McKenzie. Celebrate the Lunar New Year over drinks and a delicious dinner, and hear all the latest China trade developments from both the US and China perspective.
Alison J. Stafford Powell, Frank Pan, and Ivy Tan will lead a lively discussion and Q&A. Planned topics include:
- How rising tensions between the United States and China are creating conflict of law challenges for US exporters;
- What compliance strategies can help US exporters meet their increased Know Your customer responsibilities regarding China;
- What’s new regarding China’s export control and anti-foreign sanctions laws and implementing regulations;
-Responses by China to increasing US and international semiconductor restrictions;
- Impact of proposed China tariffs;
- And more!
Alison J. Stafford Powell, Partner, Baker McKenzie, Palo Alto
Alison Stafford Powell chairs the North America Trade Compliance team. She has considerable experience counseling US and non-US companies on managing trade compliance in the areas of export controls, trade and financial sanctions and US anti-boycott laws. As a dual-qualified lawyer, she provides practical advice to help non-US companies reconcile US and foreign trade regulations and on the extra-territorial impact of US trade restrictions. Chambers USA quotes clients' praise for her being "extremely knowledgeable, responsive, commercially strong and understanding complex issues well." Legal 500 describes here as an "outstanding specialist." She has worked in the Firm's London, Washington, DC and Palo Alto offices since 1996.
Frank Pan, Partner, Baker McKenzie FenXun, Shanghai
Frank has 20 years of experience working in a broad range of trade actions, including advising clients on trade law compliance, export control, trade remedy, and other PRC regulatory and customs issues related to supply chain planning and managing disputes with PRC regulators.
Frank's practice focus are international trade, export control, supply chain trade remedies, and customs audits and investigations.
Ivy Tan, Baker McKenzie
Ivy has over 10 years’ experience advising clients on a broad range of trade and customs matters, including cross border supply chain strategies, customs valuation and classification, use of free trade agreements and special customs areas, import and export restrictions, export control and sanction, trade remedies, customs audit and controversies, and other domestic regulatory issues. Ivy also advises on direct and indirect tax issues and is well versed in tax and supply chain planning. Ivy has broad regional experience in trade and customs matters having previously worked at Baker & McKenzie’s Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong offices, prior to joining the Singapore office.
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