Legal Firm / Attorney-at-Law Description: Mr. Yves Melin is a qualified EU and international trade & customs regulatory lawyer. His practice focuses on trade remedy investigations, customs laws and procedures, export controls and sanctions, conflict minerals, World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlements, and data protection.

Over the past 18 years, he was engaged in more than 100 trade remedy proceedings across various industries and successfully represented his clients before EU courts in more than 20 disputes relating to international trade and custom laws.

Mr. Melin’s legal background includes a ‘Master in Law’ with honors from Liège University (Belgium) and LL.M with honors in International Trade Law from the University of Essex (UK). He has developed customs law courses for Liège University and is an active lecturer at the University of Antwerp and the European Law Academy (ERA) in Trier.

He is the founder of Greenlane, an international alliance of trade law firms, as well as a member of various professional associations including the International Association of Privacy Professionals, AmCham EU, Customs & Trade Facilitation, Trade & External Affairs, and Digital Economy Committees.

Market sources quote Mr. Melin for his ability to "make the inexplicable seem explicable," and praise him for “speedy responses, integrity, and flexibility." Moreover, commentators state that they are "very impressed" with his advice regarding anti-dumping issues, noting that "Yves Melin is especially experienced in the field of trade remedies and customs law."