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State-to-State Dispute Panelists for USMCA Named

The U.S. Trade Representative announced the appointment of USMCA state-to-state dispute panelists July 1:

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  • Susan G. Braden, retired justice at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims
  • John J. Buckley, Jr., retired partner at William & Connolly in Washington, D.C., who specializes in domestic and international commercial arbitration and investor-state arbitration
  • E.F. Mano DeAyala, partner at Buck Keenan in Houston, who specializes in disputes in oil and gas and employment, both domestic and internationally
  • Dennis Devaney, a former International Trade Commissioner and senior counsel at Clark Hill in Detroit
  • Mark C. Hansen, a partner at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd Figel & Frederick, who litigated a very large domestic forced technology transfer case
  • Jean Kalicki, an independent arbitrator in New York and Washington, D.C., specializing in investor-state disputes, international and complex commercial disputes
  • Ann Ryan Robertson, an international partner in Locke Lord's Houston office, and incoming president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  • Koji Saito, intellectual property manager at Sanyo North America
  • Stephen P. Vaughn, former general counsel at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
  • Julie Bédard, head of Skadden’s International Litigation and Arbitration Group for the Americas.