Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled OFAC Issues New FAQs on Export Ban on Certain Services on 14 June 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.
We are pleased to invite you to our Virtual Global Trade Conference on July 20 and 21. In lieu of our annual conference in Bellevue, WA, we are excited to again provide a virtual offering available to all our clients and friends worldwide! Please join our international trade compliance lawyers from around the world as they discuss and examine the major developments impacting international trade. The conference will be comprised of 75 minute sessions over the course of two days and clients will also get the opportunity to request a virtual one-to-one meeting with our International Trade attorneys to discuss relevant topics of interest. Visit our events page for more information and to register.
Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled United States: BIS Issues Temporary Denial Order Against Additional Russian Airline and Adds Aircraft to List of Aircraft Subject to General Prohibition 10 on 2 June 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.
Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled OFAC Reissues the Ukraine-/Russia-Related Sanctions Regulations and Updates Related Guidance on 6 May 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.
Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled OFAC Issues New and Amended General Licenses and FAQs; Designates more than 400 Russian Parties on 28 March 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.
Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled “FinCEN issues alert on potential Russia and Belarus sanctions evasion” on 18 March 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.
Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled “US Government imposes expansive OFAC sanctions on Russia, sanctions certain additional Belarussian entities” on 27 February 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.
The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a final rule amending and reissuing the Transnational Criminal Organizations Sanctions Regulations, to further implement two existing Executive Orders related to transnational criminal organizations: “Blocking Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations,” and “Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency With Respect to Significant Transnational Criminal Organizations.”
Baker McKenzie is pleased to invite you to an interactive webinar on 26 January 2022 focused on sanctions compliance in the Gulf. Our panel will include partners from our UK, US and Middle East sanctions teams.
On November 26, 2021, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control published a final rule amending the Syrian Sanctions Regulations (“Final Rule”). The Final Rule expands the existing general license at § 542.516 to authorize nongovernmental organizations to engage in certain assistance-related investment activities in support of not-for-profit activities in Syria.