Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• French

Lawyer Overview

Howard W. Fogt, Jr. is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP. A member of the firm's Antitrust and International Practices and the Automotive Industry Team, Mr. Fogt counsels and represents corporate clients in international and domestic trade regulation laws, multinational mergers and acquisitions, international antitrust, distribution and franchise matters, the transfer and license of intellectual property and technology, and the law of the European Economic Community. The extent of Mr. Fogt's international practice requires his regular presence at Foley's offices in Brussels, Belgium.

As part of his international practice, Mr. Fogt works on trade law issues with other Foley attorneys from several of our U.S. offices. These attorneys possess solid working knowledge of United States and international trade laws and remedies in a number of highly technical fields. Mr. Fogt has particular experience in agricultural chemical fertilizers, phosphates, and other crop nutrients.

He represents export trading companies and other corporate clients before the International Trade Commission and in similar venues concerning export licensing, documentation, international finance and letters of credit, boycott situations, and other matters subject to the Export Administration Act.

Mr. Fogt served as law clerk to the Hon. C. William O'Neill, Supreme Court of Ohio, and was appointed associate counsel for the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives (1968-1970).

Mr. Fogt is an adjunct professor of European Community law at Georgetown University Law Center. He has defined and implemented the competition compliance program for an international trade association having members from over 80 countries. He is a past vice chairman of the American Bar Association's International Law and Practice Section Committee on the International Aspects of Antitrust Law. He has chaired the ABA Antitrust Section's International Law Subcommittee on Foreign Antitrust Laws and currently is co-chair of the Committee on International Antitrust of the Section on Antitrust and Trade Regulation of the Federal Bar Association.

Mr. Fogt graduated from Princeton University (magna cum laude) and the University of Virginia (J.D., 1967). Mr. Fogt is admitted to practice in Ohio and the District of Columbia. He is fluent in French, and holds a Certificate Pratique de Francais Commercial de la Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris. He also has a notion of Italian.

Mr. Fogt's publications and presentations include:

Areas of Practice

• Antitrust
• Automotive
• International Business

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia, 1970
• Ohio, 1967

Professional Associations and Memberships

• The D.C. Bar (Member)
• Bar Association of D.C. (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• Federal Bar Association

Past Employment Positions

• European Community Law at Georgetown University Law Center, Adjunct Professor
• Hon. C. William O'Neill, Supreme Court of Ohio, Law Clerk
• Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, Associate Counsel, 1968 - 1970

Education

• University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1967
  J.D.
  Honors: magna cum laude
• Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 1964
  A.B.
  Honors: magna cum laude

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