Lauren Mandell is a partner in WilmerHale’s International Trade, Investment and Market Access Practice. He helps companies and governments navigate a broad range of issues related to international trade and investment, including digital trade, foreign investment protection, tariffs and supply chain management, international arbitration, and State-to-State dispute settlement. He is particularly adept at handling issues involving China, such as the new US outbound investment security program and other measures restricting US economic engagement with China. Prior to joining WilmerHale, Mr. Mandell served in the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) under the Obama and Trump administrations, where he negotiated the investment chapter of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) and played a key role in the revival of Section 301 as a trade enforcement tool.

Neena Shenai is a WilmerHale partner with over 20 years of legal, compliance and policy experience in global cross-border activities in the private sector and in government. Ms. Shenai focuses her practice on sanctions and export controls, import/customs, CFIUS, M&A due diligence and trade policy. Prior to joining WilmerHale, she held several senior roles for Medtronic, the world’s largest medical technology company. While at Medtronic, she served as chief legal counsel and head of compliance for global trade matters impacting the company’s operations in over 150 countries, including sanctions and export controls, import and strategic supply chain issues, risk management and mitigation, corporate due diligence and trade policy. She also previously served as a trade counsel for the House Committee on Ways and Means, trade policy counsel for the Senate Republican Policy Committee, and the senior adviser to the assistant secretary for export administration in the Bureau of Industry and Security at the US Department of Commerce.

Jonathan Lim is a partner in WilmerHale’s London office with a focus on complex international disputes. He has a broad practice representing clients in all types of commercial and investment treaty arbitrations seated in common law and civil law jurisdictions worldwide, including England, New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, France, Brazil, The Netherlands, and Switzerland. He has represented both private sector and government clients in the aerospace, construction, energy, financial services, insurance, telecommunications, technology, and retail sectors, among others. Jonathan has also advised governments in Africa and Asia on public international law issues. He regularly sits as arbitrator and is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore, where he teaches commercial and investment arbitration.

Yuet Min advises clients mainly on civil disputes relating to a wide range of commercial contracts, with the aim of achieving commercially-viable solutions for clients. She has been described by a client as “very skilled” and “extremely dedicated to the needs of the client”. Yuet Min has successfully handled complex and high-value matters ranging from offshore drilling contracts and construction matters including powerplant disputes, to disputes relating to commercial rights to major sports events and banking and finance disputes, among others. She regularly appears before the Singapore Courts as lead counsel. Besides maintaining an active litigation practice, many of Yuet Min’s matters involve SIAC and ICC arbitrations as well as arbitration-related Court proceedings. She has particular experience and interest in dealing with multi-lingual proceedings and has conducted a bilingual international arbitration under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.