We have a depth of experience across the sanctions landscape and have advised clients on legal and regulatory challenges involving sanctions in numerous cross-jurisdictional contexts, including:
- Advising family offices, private equity, and lenders on potential acquisitions and financing arrangements that encounter financial or trade sanctions issues.
- Advising clients in relation to their operations and global supply chains, ensuring that they are compliant with the international sanctions regime.
- Advising clients on the ramifications of sanctions issues arising in a commercial context (such as the designation of a counterparty) and assisting with termination scenarios and any ensuing litigation or arbitration.
- Advising clients with frozen or seized assets and engaging with banks and other financial institutions, as well as law enforcement agencies, in relation to the recovery of such assets.
- Advising companies and individuals in relation to their exit strategies from jurisdictions subject to sanctions regimes, including the Russian markets.
We assist our clients in successfully navigating the global sanctions landscape and, if necessary, dealing with OFSI and other competent authorities to make reports, notifications, applications for specific licences, and submissions that relate to sanctions compliance and violations issues.