Dr. Ines Willemyns
Biography
Dr. Ines Willemyns is a senior associate in the IC&T Practice Group in the Brussels office. She joined Baker McKenzie in 2022. Ines advises clients on European Union and international trade law and regulations, with a focus on trade remedies, customs rules, market access, and regulatory barriers. This includes advice related to compliance under WTO law and Free Trade Agreements. Ines has particular expertise on the regulation of (digital) services under international trade law.
Practice Focus
Ines mainly advises clients on various angles of international trade law, including EU and World Trade Organization (WTO) trade remedies, customs rules, market access and regulatory barriers, and in trade policy negotiations. Ines also has experience representing clients in litigation before the EU courts and EU Member State courts, as well as before EU and EU Member State (customs) authorities.
Ines has experience teaching international trade law at KU Leuven and University of Antwerp. Her monograph on digital services under international trade law was published with Cambridge University Press. Ines' research has been published in leading journals.
Representative Legal Matters
- Represented a major steel producer in EU anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations.
- Advised a major services company on a sector-specific annex in an FTA
- Represented importers of goods subject to anti-circumvention duties in litigation before the Court of Justice of the EU.
- Represented producers of medical devices in litigation before the Court of Justice of the EU.
Admissions
- Brussels~Belgium (2020)
Education
- KU Leuven (Ph.D ) (2019)
- University of Barcelona (LL.M) (2015)
- KU Leuven (Law Degree) (2014)
Languages
- Dutch
- English
- French