Steptoe's REACH Team
Seth Goldberg, sgoldberg@steptoe.com
Mr. Goldberg has experience in a range of chemical regulatory issues, including FIFRA and TSCA, the HPV testing program, the Food Quality Protection Act, and the Federal Hazardous Substances Act. Clients often call on him to represent them before administrative agencies and courts in a broad range of complex matters. A substantial part of his practice involves compliance advice, agency rulemaking and license decisions, and appeals from such decisions.
Jean Russotto, jrussotto@steptoe.com
Mr. Russotto is a partner in Steptoe’s Brussels office. He advises US, European, and Asian clients across a broad range of matters involving EU law. He assists clients with policy advice and strategic representation before the various Directorates of the European Commission. Mr. Russotto works extensively on chemicals and life sciences regulatory issues. He is a director of the Swiss Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the EU-Swiss Committee. He is regularly cited in the Legal 500.
Jim Searles, jsearles@steptoe.com
Mr. Searles is a partner in Steptoe’s Brussels office. His work concentrates on EU and international law, focusing on the fields of trade and environment. Mr. Searles has significant experience in substance regulation, at both Member State and EU levels. He is actively advising on the regulatory and international trade aspects of REACH, as well as developing compliance strategies. He also assists industry clients concerning EU sectoral chemical regulatory measures, climate change policy and CO2 emission initiatives. He works with companies and trade associations in the agricultural, chemicals, motor vehicle, information technology, steel, textiles, and general consumer goods sectors.
Darren Abrahams, dabrahams@steptoe.com
Mr. Abrahams is an English Barrister in Steptoe’s Brussels office. His practice is focused on EU regulatory requirements and related commercial issues in the chemical regulatory and life sciences area. He is a consistently recommended practitioner in the PLC’s Life Sciences Handbook and is acknowledged by the Legal 500 for his regulatory advice in the environmental field. Recent representative matters in which he has been involved include: defending the authorisation of plant protection products before the European Courts of Justice; strategic advice on compliance with REACH; protecting data, establishing consortia, and drafting supply agreements and letters of access for biocidal products; and managing environmental liabilities associated with manufacturing processes and product sales.
Laura Atlee, latlee@steptoe.com
Ms. Atlee is a member of the New York Bar in Steptoe’s Brussels office. Her practice focuses on both EU regulatory and international law, with emphases on environment, trade, and competition law. She is acknowledged by the Legal 500 for her regulatory advice in the environmental field. Recent representative matters in which she has been involved include: advice on REACH for the metals sector and for downstream users, state aid specific to the chemicals sector, trade measures (i.e. anti-dumping and subsidies), customs, intra-EU market access, and climate change legislation.
Craig Simpson, csimpson@steptoe.com
Mr. Simpson is an English solicitor in Steptoe’s Brussels office. His practice is focused on chemicals registration and authorisation under REACH, biocides, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices. Recent experience has included representing a biotechnology company and a major trade association as interested third parties in high profile litigation before the European Courts of Justice and preparing Task Force and Data Sharing Agreements for collective dossier notification under the Biocidal Products Directive. Mr. Simpson is consistently recommended in PLC’s Life Sciences Handbook.
In addition, Steptoe provides integrated services with an eight person technical team led by Graham Lloyd.
Graham Lloyd, glloyd@regs.co.uk
Mr. Lloyd is a regulatory consultant with more than 25 years experience in European regulation of the chemical industry; he works directly on a broad range of EU, UK, and other national regulatory programs. Mr. Lloyd counsels clients in all aspects of chemical regulatory affairs, from ensuring compliance with the many EU directives and regulations applicable to the chemical industry, to comprehensive monitoring and analysis of emerging regulatory initiatives. In addition, he is widely recognized for his leading role in the industry response to the Biocidal Products Directive.
