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Paolo R. Vergano is a partner at FratiniVergano - European Lawyers and a member of the firm’s Trade Group. His practice focuses on international trade law (i.e., WTO law, dispute settlement and trade negotiation in the areas of agriculture, services and non-tariff barriers such as sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade). Mr. Vergano has extensive experience in advising Governments on WTO accession procedures and multilateral/regional trade negotiation. He represents private clients affected by WTO and FTA negotiations in the services sectors of postal and courier, energy and finance. Mr. Vergano started his professional career in Brussels in 1995, working on trade issues and early WTO dispute settlement procedures at the British law firm of Stanbrook and Hooper. Prior to co-founding FratiniVergano in 2007, he also worked at the European Parliament as a researcher with the External Economic Relations (REX) Committee, in the International Trade Group of White & Case LLP in Washington, DC and at O’Connor and Company in Brussels, where he became partner in 2005. Mr. Vergano is admitted in Belgium and is a member of the Brussels bar (A list), the IBA and ETLA. Mr. Vergano is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Torino, Italy (1995), received a Diplôme Supérieur de Droit Comparé at the Faculté Internationale de Droit Comparé in Strasbourg, France (1996) and holds a Master’s degree in International Business and Trade Law from the University of Fordham School of Law in New York, United States (1997). He is a frequent lecturer and author on issues of WTO law.  Vergano_ed.jpg