Lunar New Year Celebration with Baker McKenzie
January 28, 2026
5:30 - 8:30 p.m. PT
Intel
2200 Mission College Blvd
Santa Clara, CA 95054
1.25 hrs. CCS/MCS/LCB Credits and 1 CLE Credit (accreditation pending)
Welcome to the Year of the Horse! 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 of 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:
-The "flip-side" of U.S. tariff policy—how it looked from China and its ripple effects across regional supply chains.
-Tariffs: Update and impacts
-Sanctions: Triggers of Chinese sanctions and how to mitigate risk
-Unpack the APAC response to the BIS Affiliates rule—what it looked like in APAC when it went live, and what its suspension signals now.
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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