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Stacy J. Ettinger is a Partner with the global law firm K&L Gates. Ms. Ettinger is based in Washington DC and leads the firm’s international trade policy practice. She has over 25 years of experience working with U.S. and foreign businesses and foreign governments on trade and investment legal, regulatory, and policy matters. Ms. Ettinger advises U.S. and foreign companies operating across a diverse range of sectors including manufacturing, energy (LNG, solar), infrastructure, maritime, and e-commerce, in various geographic regions including Europe, Asia and the Arctic. Her practice covers international trade, investment and regulatory matters, including trade investigations, tariffs and customs rules, national security reviews of foreign acquisitions and investments (CFIUS), free trade zones, market access issues, international IP, sanctions, and food/product standards. Ms. Ettinger joined K&L Gates in 2016 after serving for over nine years as senior legal and policy advisor to the United States Senate Democratic Leader, Charles Schumer, on trade, investment and regulatory matters. Prior to her work in the United States Senate, Ms. Ettinger served for 15 years as a senior trade negotiator, legal and policy advisor, and litigator at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where she represented the United States in bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations, investigated and litigated unfair trade practices involving industrial and agricultural products, and managed complex federal rulemaking projects. She also represented the United States in more than 30 appearances in World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement proceedings. Ms. Ettinger has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University since 2007, where she teaches an advanced legal seminar entitled “International Trade Remedies and the WTO.” She is active in various trade-related professional organizations, including as Board Vice President of the Trade Policy Forum. Ms. Ettinger writes and speaks frequently on international trade and investment issues.