Eva Monard | Brussels | Hogan Lovells

Eva Monard

Partner Global Regulatory

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Eva Monard
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  • Overview
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Eva Monard's practice focuses on EU trade and customs law, WTO disputes, trade remedies such as anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations, EU sanctions and trade controls, and EU internal market law. Eva represents clients before EU institutions, including the European Commission, and before competent authorities of various EU Member States. Eva has extensive experience in litigating trade and internal market cases before the EU courts. 

In the trade remedy area, she has assisted clients in more than 100 anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, and safeguard investigations in various jurisdictions. She also advises clients on their obligations under EU export controls laws and sanctions, by preparing compliance policies, reviewing transactions and dealing with competent authorities on their behalf. Eva advises clients on EU customs law, on issues such as classification, origin and valuation. She has guided several companies through pan-European customs investigations. 

Eva assists clients with novel trade barriers driven by environmental or human rights related considerations, such as the EU Deforestation Regulation and legislation dealing with forced labour and other supply chain due diligence. She also assists clients in relation to the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation.

Eva assists governments at all stages of World Trade Organization dispute settlement proceedings, before panels and the Appellate Body. She also advises clients on the compatibility of national legislation with WTO trade laws and free trade agreements.

Chambers client commentary views her as "probably the best trade lawyer of her generation" and comment that she has an "open and straightforward style of presenting that makes people like her instantly."

Representative experience

Secured the lowest duty rate for a Hong Kong biodiesel manufacturer and obtained the exclusion of SAF in an EU anti-dumping investigation on imports of biodiesel from China.*

Secured the lowest duty rate for a leading EV manufacturer in the context of the EU anti-subsidy investigation regarding Battery Electric Vehicles from China.*

Secured the lowest duty rate for a US PVC manufacturer in an EU anti-dumping investigation on PVC imports from, inter alia, the US.*

Assisted a Government in various WTO disputes at the panel as well as Appellate Body stage.*

Assisted a major U.S. pulp and paper company on EU deforestation legislation and traceability requirements.*

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., Catholic University of Leuven, Magna cum laude000
Bar admissions and qualifications
  • Brussels

Recognition

Ranked for International Trade/WTO, Europe-wide

Chambers Global

2023-2025
Ranked for International Trade/WTO, Europe-wide

Chambers Europe

2018-2025
Associate-to-Watch - International Trade/WTO

Chambers Europe

2018
Next Generation Partner - Customs, Trade, WTO and Antidumping, Belgium

Legal 500 EMEA

2023-2025
Ranked for Customs, Trade, WTO and Antidumping

Legal 500 EMEA

2016-2023
Rising Star - Customs, Trade, WTO and Antidumping

Legal 500 EMEA

2021
Next Generation Lawyer - Customs, Trade, WTO and Antidumping

Legal 500 EMEA

2018-2019
Global Elite Thought Leader - Trade and Customs

Lexology Index

2025
Global Elite Thought Leader - Trade and Customs

Who's Who Legal

2020-2024
Ranked for Trade and Customs

Who's Who Legal

2016-2024
Euromoney EMEA Women in Business Law Awards - International Trade Lawyer of the Year

Euromoney

2024
Europe Rising Star Award

Euromoney

2019
International Rising Star: Europe's Best Up-and-Coming Female Lawyers

Law.com International

2021
International Trade Rising Star EMEA

IFLR

2021
Rising Star Europe - Belgium

IFLR

2020
International Trade Rising Star

Law360

2020
International Trade Rising Star

Expert Guides

2019-2021