Charles S. Levy

Charles Levy focuses on legal and policy issues covering a broad range of international trade, investment, finance, economic sanctions, and export control matters.

Mr. Levy is experienced in devising and implementing strategies for using trade laws, international litigation, and international negotiations to achieve business objectives, and in resolving disputes between companies and governments. In the area of international negotiations, he has worked on every major U.S. bilateral, regional and multilateral negotiation since the GATT Tokyo Round; and in the area of U.S. international trade and investment laws, he has worked on every major U.S. trade act since the Trade Act of 1974. In the area of international litigation, he has worked on major antidumping, countervailing duty, safeguard, Section 337, Section 301, and WTO cases.

Mr. Levy was a partner at WilmerHale until 2009, where he chaired the firm’s International Trade Practice Group. After retiring from WilmerHale, he was a founding partner in Cassidy Levy Kent.

Mr. Levy previously served as Counsel to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy, Legislative Assistant to Senator Adlai E. Stevenson, Legislative Assistant to Congressman John C. Culver, and Legal Advisor to Commissioner Paula Stern at the U.S. International Trade Commission. Mr. Levy has also served on several U.S. government trade and investment advisory committees, including the U.S. Trade Representative’s Advisory Committees on Intellectual Property Rights, Investment and Services, and Investment Policy, where he served as Chairman of the Task Force on Bilateral Investment Treaties, and the U.S. Department of State’s Investment Advisory Committee and its Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy.

Recognized repeatedly in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business; Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers; The Best Lawyers in America; and Washington D.C.’s Best Lawyers.