Overview
Eva Monard's practice focuses on EU trade and customs law, WTO disputes, trade remedies such as anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations, EU sanctions and trade controls, and EU internal market law. Eva represents international companies, associations, and governments. She represents clients before EU institutions, including the European Commission, and before customs authorities of various EU Member States. Eva has extensive experience in litigating trade and internal market cases before the EU courts.
In the trade remedy area, she has assisted clients in more than 80 anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, and safeguard investigations in various jurisdictions, and has obtained annulments of trade remedies imposed on imports. She also advises clients on their obligations under EU export controls laws and sanctions by preparing compliance policies and by conducting due diligence of proposed transactions to ensure that clients meet their obligations as to EU trade controls (e.g., in relation to military or dual-use items) and sanctions.
Eva advises clients on EU customs law, on issues such as classification, origin and valuation. She has guided several companies through pan-European customs investigations.
Eva assists governments at all stages of World Trade Organization dispute settlement proceedings, before panels and the Appellate Body. She also advises clients on the compatibility of national legislation with WTO trade laws and free trade agreements.
Chambers client commentary views her as "probably the best trade lawyer of her generation" and comment that she has an "open and straightforward style of presenting that makes people like her instantly."
- Brussels Bar
- M.L., Catholic University of Leuven, magna cum laude
Areas of Work
Speaking Engagements
- "A New Zero-Sum Game? The Parallel and Interlinked Explosion of (Industrial Policy) Subsidies and of Market Access Restrictions – International and EU Perspectives," World Trade Institute, September 12, 2024
- "Risk on the Rise: Navigating the 11th Sanctions Package With Maritime AI™," Windward Maritime Webinar, February 27, 2024
- "How the EU targets foreign subsidies to 'level its playing field'," Borderlex Academy: How the global subsidy race is shaping global business and trade, January 24, 2024
- "New EU Regulatory Trade Barriers," Association of Corporate Counsel, Hong Kong, December 7, 2023
- "Trade compliance and due diligence impacts of specific proposals and legislation in the EU," NielsonSmith European Trade Controls Compliance Strategic Summit, Washington, DC, October 18, 2023
- "Navigations Divergence: a Compliance Masterclass," WorldECR Export Controls and Sanctions Forum, London, October 5, 2023
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European Trade Controls Compliance Strategic Summit, Washington, DC, 18-19, October 2022
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"Developments in EU export controls regarding emerging technologies", The WorldECR Export Controls and Sanctions Forum, Washington, DC, October 17-18, 2022
News & Publications
Stepwise Risk Outlook
European Defense Sector Sees Demand for “Buy European” Policies Amid Growing Transatlantic Risks
March 14, 2025
By: Melissa B. Mahle
Client Alerts
European Commission Publishes Industrial Action Plan for the European Automotive Sector
March 13, 2025
By: Renato Antonini, Eva Monard, Byron Maniatis, Yongqing Bao, Elli Zachari, Calista Babuder
Stepwise Risk Outlook
First Steps Towards Ending the Ukraine War Highlight Difficult Process and Business Risks Ahead
March 5, 2025
By: Melissa B. Mahle
Client Alerts
March 3, 2025
By: Ruxandra Cana, Eléonore Mullier, Renato Antonini, Eva Monard, Byron Maniatis, Elli Zachari, Yongqing Bao, Robert Klotz, Charles Whiddington, Sherazad Chaouch
Stepwise Risk Outlook
Amid Rising Geopolitical Risks, the EU Considers an European Defense Union
February 7, 2025
By: Melissa B. Mahle
Resources
Events
Seminars & Events
Brussels Symposium and Cocktail Reception
November 12, 2024
Speakers: Ruxandra Cana, Eric C. Emerson, Tyler Evans, Anne-Gabrielle Haie, Robert Klotz, Patrick F. Linehan, Byron Maniatis, Eva Monard, Eléonore Mullier, Daniel A. Mullen, Darryl Nirenberg, Meredith Rathbone, Jeffrey G. Weiss, Charles Whiddington, Wendy Wysong
Seminars & Events
Global Trade and Enforcement Symposium in Hong Kong
June 1, 2023
Speakers: Renato Antonini, Yongqing Bao, Brigida Benitez, Brian G. Burke, Ali Burney, Henry Cao, John Caracappa, Boyd Cloern, Robyn C. Crowther, Brian J. Fleming, Coy Garrison, Zoey Hong, Stanley C. Kuo, Amy J. Lentz, Michelle L. Levin, Patrick F. Linehan, Jamie Lucia, Alexandra Melia, Cáitrín McKiernan, Eva Monard, Darryl Nirenberg, Gwendolyn Prothro Renigar, Angus Rodger, Guy Soussan, David M. Stetson, Grace Wang, Philip R. West, Charles Whiddington, Wendy Wysong, Lin Yang, Bo Yue, Wilson Zhao
Webinars
Impact of EU Sanctions on Compliance with EU Chemicals Requirements
December 8, 2022
Speakers: Ruxandra Cana, Eva Monard, Roberto Crespi
Webinars
Forced Labor Initiatives in the US and EU
October 13, 2022
Speakers: Byron Maniatis, Eva Monard, Jeffrey G. Weiss
Noteworthy
- Chambers Global, International Trade/WTO, Europe-wide (2023-2025)
- Chambers Europe, International Trade/WTO, Europe-wide (2018-2025)
- Legal 500, Customs, Trade, WTO, and Antidumping (2016-2023)
- Legal 500 EMEA, Customs, Trade, WTO, and Antidumping, Belgium, Next Generation Partner (2023-2024)
- Lexology Index: Trade and Customs, Global Elite Thought Leaders (2025)
- Who's Who Legal: Trade and Customs, Global Elite Thought Leaders (2020-2024)
- Who's Who Legal: Trade and Customs (2016-2024)
- Euromoney EMEA Women in Business Law Awards, International Trade Lawyer of the Year (2024)
- Law.com International, Rising Star: Europe's Best Up-and-Coming Female Lawyers (2021)
- Legal 500, Customs, Trade, WTO, and Antidumping, Rising Star (2021)
- IFLR, International Trade, Rising Star EMEA (2021)
- Expert Guides, International Trade, Rising Star (2019-2021)
- Law360, International Trade, Rising Star (2020)
- IFLR, Belgium, Rising Star Europe (2020)
- Euromoney Legal Media Group Europe, Europe Rising Star Award (2019)
- Legal 500, Customs, trade, WTO, and antidumping, Next Generation Lawyer (2018-2019)
- Chambers, International Trade, associate-to-watch (2018)
Professional Affiliations
- EU Commission, Pool of Arbitrators and Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) Experts