Advises clients on U.S. law and policy involving the importation of goods, including antidumping and countervailing duties, circumvention inquiries, global safeguard investigations, and other tariff actions.
Represents clients in trade remedy litigation before the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. International Trade Commission, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and binational panels.

Sydney represents clients on a broad range of international trade matters, with a focus on trade remedy matters, including antidumping and countervailing duties and global safeguard measures. She has experience representing foreign governments, mandatory respondents, and multinational corporations in trade remedies matters before the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. International Trade Commission, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Sydney has also represented clients in appeals before a U.S.-Canada-Mexico binational panel. She frequently advises clients on various trade policy matters, including antidumping and countervailing duties, tariff actions , climate policy, U.S. legislation on forced labor, and other proposed legislation affecting U.S. trade policy.

Sydney is also active in pro bono representations involving both asylum applications and wrongful conviction compensation claims, and she is an adjunct professor for the George Washington University School of Law scholarly writing program.

Representative Work

Represented a mandatory respondent in Ferrosilicon from Brazil AD and CVD investigations.
Represented the Brazilian ferrosilicon industry in ITC injury investigation into Ferrosilicon from Brazil, Kazahkstan, Malaysia, and Russia.
Represented the Japanese steel industry in sunset review of the antidumping duty order on Tin- and Chromium-Coated Steel Sheet from Japan.
Represented a Canadian province in the countervailing duty proceedings involving softwood lumber from Canada, one of the largest and longest-running trade disputes in the world, before both the U.S. Department of Commerce and binational U.S.-Canada-Mexico panels.
Represented a large U.S. solar utility and importer in antidumping and countervailing duty circumvention proceedings on imports of crystalline solar photovoltaic cells and modules at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Represented a sole mandatory respondent in the antidumping duty investigations into common alloy aluminum sheet and aluminum foil from Oman.
Represented a coalition of U.S. producers, U.S. importers, foreign producers and trade associations in the global safeguard investigation of blueberries at the U.S. International Trade Commission and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Represented a major tire producer as a mandatory respondent in the antidumping duty reviews of passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China and Thailand, and the countervailing duty review of passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China.
Advising multinational companies on numerous trade policy matters, including executive branch tariff actions, Section 232 and Section 301 duties, and U.S. climate policy.

Education
J.D., The George Washington University Law School, with high honors, 2018
B.A., University of Georgia, magna cum laude, 2013

Bar Admissions
District of Columbia

Recognitions

The Legal 500 US, International Trade: Trade Remedies and Trade Policy, 2024.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals and the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Capital Pro Bono High Honor Roll, 2018.

Affiliations and Public Service