Panoramic: Automotive and Mobility 2025
Byron Maniatis
Partner Global Regulatory
Languages
English, Dutch, French, Greek
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Overview
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Experience
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Byron has been practicing EU and international trade law for over a decade, with a focus on trade compliance, trade defence, international trade agreements, and dispute settlement. He frequently works on matters before the European Commission and EU Member State authorities, and has assisted clients in the context of more than two dozen cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
He regularly advises on compliance with economic sanctions and export controls, such as preparing compliance policies, engaging in due diligence of proposed transactions, as well as engaging with competent authorities in the context of audits, investigations, or voluntary disclosures. Similarly, he advises on EU customs law, including on the customs classification and origin of goods.
Byron also advises on ESG-driven trade barriers that are increasingly imposed by the EU, including the Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D), the Carbon Border He has been involved in many of the most high-profile EU anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, and safeguard investigations, as well as similar investigations in various jurisdictions across the world, and advises clients on the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR).
Byron has also been involved in all stages of dispute settlement proceedings before the World Trade Organization (WTO), and advises clients on the WTO compatibility of national measures.
Representative experience
Advised a US company in the energy sector on obtaining an amendment to EU sanctions for a derogation relevant to its products.*
Advised a US company in the chemicals sector on obtaining authorisations under EU sanctions for it to be able to continue to supply goods and services.*
Assisted a major U.S. pulp and paper company on EU deforestation legislation and traceability requirements.*
Assisted a Government in various WTO disputes at the panel as well as Appellate Body stage.*
Advised a major Korean industrial multinational on CBAM.*
Advised a global battery manufacturer on various aspects of the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation.*
Obtained the annulment of the EU’s first ever GSP safeguards measures regarding imports of Indica rice originating in Cambodia for the Cambodian government and the Cambodia Rice Federation.*
Supported a Chinese solar manufacturer on the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, Forced Labour Regulation, and German Supply Chain Act, incl. supply chain mapping and risk analysis.*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
Education
- LL.M., University of Barcelona, With Distinction000
- LL.M., Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Summa cum laude000
- LL.B., University of East Anglia, Upper second class honours000
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Brussels
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24 September 2025