CyndeeLaw

Bio

Cyndee Todgham Cherniak is counsel in Lang Michener's Toronto office. Her practice includes: international law, including WTO, NAFTA & Trade Agreement analysis, interpretations, & opinions, government relations strategies, & dispute settlement, NAFTA verifications, value for duty, tariff classification, import & export controls & sanctions, bilateral restraint agreements, bilateral investment treaties, textile references, international protection of IPR, anti-dumping & countervailing duties, safeguard actions, government procurement, investor-state disputes, the Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act, border & national security, food & product safety, anti-corruption & anti-bribery, and compliance programs/codes of conduct. Cyndee also has expertise in goods and services tax (GST), Ontario retail sales tax, Ontario employer health tax, Ontario land transfer tax, excise tax, and customs duties. Cyndee is known as an international lawyer who works closely with other lawyers, in-house counsel, international financial institutions, trade associations, non-governmental organizations & governments. Cyndee is frequently contacted by top media organizations to share her views and insights on hot button trade issues. She has been a featured guest on several different radio and television shows such as Today on China Radio International (CRI), The Rutherford Report on Corus Radio, The Agenda with Steve Paikin and iChannel's @issue. Cyndee has been featured, quoted and/or has acted as a contributor to several articles in a variety of national newspapers including The Globe and Mail and The Vancouver Sun, and has been published as an author or contributor in numerous publications and e-zines, such as Law Times, Canadian Lawyer, Lawyers Weekly, Canadian Business, Embassy Magazine, The Hill Times and National Magazine. Cyndee is an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve Univesity Law School teaching on NAFTA and trade agreements. Cyndee has beena consultant to the ADB.