Navigating the Challenges of Global Trade
With the increasing uncertainty surrounding potential U.S. tariffs and trade policies, businesses exporting to the United States face significant challenges, including fluctuating costs, compliance complexities, and potential supply chain disruptions. Recent actual and threatened U.S. tariffs targeting a wide range of industries have created new regulatory hurdles and challenges for Asian exporters. Our practice provides proactive legal strategies to help businesses mitigate risks and capitalize on new opportunities in global trade.

Industry Expertise
To provide the highest level of support, our firm works closely with established U.S. tariff counsel to ensure that our clients receive comprehensive guidance on all tariff and trade matters. This experience includes:

• Section 421 Tariffs: Advised Chinese tire manufacturers on U.S. trade commission hearings, export strategies, and factory relocations to Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia.
• Section 301 Tariffs: Provided critical counsel to Asian manufacturers navigating the first “Trump Tariffs,” including customs procedures, tariff mitigation strategies, and supply chain restructuring.
• Anti-Dumping & Countervailing Duties: Assisted manufacturers from Thailand, Vietnam, and Taiwan in U.S. trade investigations, ensuring compliance and minimizing financial impact.

Comprehensive Services for Asian Businesses
We work where trade happens — advising Asian businesses on how to minimize risk, stay compliant, and move goods across borders profitably.

Our Tariff and Trade Practice offers a wide range of legal services tailored to exporters, manufacturers, and multinational corporations operating in Asia, including:

• U.S. Tariff Compliance: Helping businesses manage compliance with evolving U.S. trade laws.
• Customs & Trade Remedies: Advising on anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations, including mandatory questionnaire completion and representation before U.S. trade authorities.
• Cross-Border Compliance: Ensuring compliance with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and regional export regulations.
• Supply Chain & Market Access Strategies: Assisting businesses in adjusting supply chains, relocating production facilities, and minimizing tariff exposure.
• Trade Policy Advocacy: Engaging with U.S. regulatory bodies to advocate for favorable trade policies affecting Asian exporters.

Executing Complex Cross-Border and Domestic Business Deals
Forum Law Partners has extensive experience advising clients on high-value, multi-jurisdictional transactions. Our team takes a business-first approach—combining deep legal knowledge with a strategic understanding of what drives deals forward. We are not just legal technicians; we are advisors who focus on outcomes.

Our experience includes completing over 50 asset purchase agreement transactions across a range of industries, as well as handling complex deals that span multiple countries and legal systems. We regularly draft, negotiate, and review all manner of commercial agreements related to manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, shipping, and strategic partnerships.

Representative Services:

• Asset and stock purchase agreements
• U.S. and international business acquisitions and divestitures
• Manufacturing, distribution, and fulfillment agreements
• Commercial lease negotiation
• Multi-country deal structuring and documentation
• Strategic contract review and negotiation
• Risk allocation and dispute avoidance in cross-border contexts

High-Stakes Litigation with a Strategic Edge

Forum Law Partners LLP vigorously represents its clients in litigation, and always with an eye towards efficiently managing the litigation towards resolution, be it settlement or trial.

Forum Law Partners LLP represents companies, executives, and stakeholders in complex, high-value litigation across a wide range of industries. We bring decades of courtroom and arbitration experience to every case, and we approach litigation as business strategists as much as trial lawyers.

Whether prosecuting or defending a claim, we focus on results—identifying opportunities to resolve disputes early when beneficial, or litigating aggressively through trial and appeal when necessary. Our attorneys are licensed in California state and federal courts and are deeply experienced in handling litigation involving cross-border parties, international jurisdictional issues, and sophisticated commercial conflicts.

Our Litigation Services Include:

• Business and commercial disputes
• Breach of fiduciary duty and shareholder litigation
• Enforcement of cross-border judgments and arbitration awards
• Fraud, misrepresentation, and trade secret claims
• Dispute resolution through mediation, arbitration, and trial

Forum Law Partners is as comfortable in the courtroom as we are in the boardroom—and our litigation practice reflects our commitment to protecting client interests with focus, clarity, and conviction.