Lawyers / Professionals

 
John B. Pellegrini       
Counsel
1345 Avenue of the Americas
7th Floor
New York, New York 10105-0106
T: 212.548.7020
F: 212.715.2301
jpellegrini@mcguirewoods.com
 

Mr. Pellegrini's practice is concentrated on the regulatory and commercial aspects of international trade. He represents clients with respect to government regulation of the import-export trade, duty planning, admissibility requirements, litigation in the U.S. Court of International Trade, representation before the various federal agencies which regulate trade in the United States, and the commercial aspects of international trade.

His clients include multinationals, general merchandise retailers, importers, exporters, domestic and foreign manufacturers, commission agents, trade associations (United States Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel and the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America), and international marketing companies.

Mr. Pellegrini counsels clients in issues relating to:

  • Classification and appraisement of imported merchandise
  • Questions involving the origin and admissibility of merchandise
  • Drawback
  • Warehouse and foreign trade zone issues
  • Export licensing and export controls
  • Defense of civil penalty and criminal investigations and prosecutions
  • Foreign asset control restrictions
  • Boycott compliance
  • Legislative, judicial and administrative proceedings, including trade policy cases


Practices & Industries
Honors
  • Named a New York "Super Lawyer," 2011

Previous Experience
  • Partner, Ross & Hardies, New York, New York
  • Senior Attorney, U.S. Customs Service
  • Senior Attorney, J.C. Penney Company, Inc.

Professional Affiliations
  • Bar of the State of New York
 

EDUCATION

New York University School of Law, New York, New York, LL.M., 1973

Columbia University School of Law, New York, New York, LL.B., 1966

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, A.B., cum laude, 1963

 
 

ADMITTED

New York

U.S. Court of International Trade