BIOGRAPHY
Ada Loo has close to 20 years of legal experience in international trade law, covering all aspects of trade in both the public and private sectors. Ada started out her legal career as a Customs Attorney at the U.S. Customs Service, now known as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection as a result of the formation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2002. Ada later moved on to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of the Chief Counsel for Trade Enforcement and Compliance (formerly, the Office of the Chief Counsel for the Import Administration) litigating antidumping and countervailing duty cases before the Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. After dipping her toes in litigation, Ada’s time at the Commerce Department was short-lived because she learned that litigation wasn’t her thing and headed to a large international law firm in Washington, D.C. where she developed her trade practice to focus primarily on export controls and economic sanctions. While enjoying her time at the law firm, Ada was recruited for a limited opportunity to go in-house at America’s largest exporter, The Boeing Company (Boeing). Wanting to take advantage of this new opportunity, Ada left the firm for Boeing and was there for close to ten years until she decided it was time to take on a new challenge, the semiconductor industry. Ada is now at Cadence Design Systems as the head of Cadence Legal’s Government and Trade Compliance team and holds the position of Group Director and Associate General Counsel. Ada received her undergraduate degree at Emory University located in Georgia, where she was born and raised, and her law degree at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C.