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Partner
Thomas E. Skilton is a partner in Cameron LLP's corporate and international trade practice groups and is based in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.
Mr. Skilton's corporate practice focuses on representing clients in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, privatizations, and other transactions. Mr. Skilton has extensive experience in international business transactions and has spent considerable time working with Latin American and European companies and operations. He is fluent in Spanish. In recent years, Mr. Skilton has represented a telecommunications development company in connection with its acquisition of controlling interests in over US$7 billion of European cable television assets and its conversion of those assets into a broadband multimedia network; a Fortune 500 company in connection with the divestiture of its worldwide semiconductor manufacturing operations valued at US$1 billion; banks, borrowers and third party guarantors in connection with an aggregate several billion U.S. dollars in financings; and Latin American governments in connection with their restructuring and privatization of state-owned airports, metals and mining operations, and telecommunications companies. During the years 2000-01, Mr. Skilton was a lead attorney in two transactions named "Buyout Deal of the Year 2000" and "Telecom Deal of the Year 2001," respectively, by prominent trade publications.
Mr. Skilton's international trade practice focuses on counseling and representing foreign exporters and United States importers of products subject to regulation by the U.S. Government, most notably in antidumping and countervailing duty (CVD) proceedings before the U.S. Department of Commerce (International Trade Administration) and the U.S. International Trade Commission. Among the products covered by these proceedings are: chlorinated isocyanurates; live swine; polyethylene bags; polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film; PET resin; raspberries; shrimp; and steel wire rod. Mr. Skilton also advises U.S. companies on matters relating to U.S. export controls and foreign companies on matters relating to Bioterrorism Act-related FDA import requirements.
Mr. Skilton received his B.A. degree, cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1989, and his J.D. degree from Cornell University, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell International Law Journal, in 1993. During 1989-90, he studied at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina as a Rotary International Foundation Fellow. He is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia.
Mr. Skilton has served on the Steering Committee of The International Gateway, a joint venture of the Greater Washington Board of Trade and the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. and as a member of the Western Hemisphere Task Force of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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