Lucas Jimenez
Lucas Jimenez has extensive experience handling international trade and customs matters. Lucas advises clients on trade remedies investigations (anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguards), tariff classification issues, Brazilian customs and trade law and regulations, preferential trade agreements, and WTO agreements and disputes.
Lucas has lived and worked in Brazil, the United States, Switzerland, and Belgium, gaining broad international experience. Lucas has represented clients before trade authorities in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, the European Union, and China, as well as the Dispute Settlement Body of the WTO in Geneva.
Before joining MPA, Lucas practiced at a leading European trade law firm in Brussels and served as a Dispute Settlement Lawyer at the WTO’s Legal Affairs Division. He has also consulted for the Sanctions Committee of Inter-American Development Bank and conducted research for the Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment. Earlier in his career, Lucas spent five years at a leading Brazilian full-service law firm in Sao Paulo, focusing on international trade and customs, competition law, and litigation.
Lucas holds an LL.B. from the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo (honors) and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, where he graduated as a James Kent Scholar (high honors).
- LL.M., high honors (James Kent Scholar), Columbia Law School
- LL.B., honors, Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo
- Adeet Dobhal, Petros C. Mavroidis, Lucas Jimenez, Sunayana Sasmal & Robert Wolfe, Do Private Actors Have Rights under the WTO? The Motivation for and (Inadequate) Implementation of GATT Article X, 58, Journal of World Trade, Issue 5, pp. 727-759 (2024).
- Lucas Jimenez & Adeet Dobhal, Government Procurement, Financial Services, and Environment in the EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Linkages and Implications for the EU and Brazil, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (2024).
- Lucas Jimenez, Marina Martes & Carol Sayeg, The contribution of international trade to the promotion of sustainable production and consumption, 3 Revista Brasileira de Direito do Comércio Internacional, 115, 115-140 (2020).
- Renê Medrado & Lucas Jimenez, Brasil e o TPP: Custo Legislativo de uma Acessão [Brazil and the TPP: the legislative cost of an accession], 2 Revista Brasileira de Direito do Comércio Internacional, 79, 79- 152 (2019).