The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security announced amendments to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations in a continuing effort to relax certain aspects of the U.S. embargo against Cuba.
In a noteworthy trend picked-up by Trace International’s Global Enforcement Report, in 2014 non-U.S. enforcement actions concerning bribery of…
We asked Mini vandePol (Head of the Baker & McKenzie Global and Asia-Pacific Compliance Practice Group) and Joanna Ludlam…
On May 29, 2015, the U.S. Government announced Cuba’s removal from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (the “SST List”), five months after President Obama instructed Secretary of State John Kerry to reevaluate Cuba’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. We reported on the U.S. Government’s process of…
We rarely think about emergencies before they arrive on our doorstep. Yet, the recent civil unrest in Baltimore…
Effectively managing corporate compliance efforts in today’s regulatory environment–preventing corporate officers and employee from engaging in illegal practices,…
On April 14, 2015, President Obama submitted to the U.S. Congress a report and certification indicating the Administration’s intent to rescind Cuba’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. The rescission of Cuba’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism will become effective unless Congress enacts a joint resolution prohibiting…
Various countries and their compliance-enforcing agencies request that companies have “adequate” compliance programs and organizations. But what does…
On Thursday, February 26, 2015, US Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) published a public notice on its website regarding the…
On Friday, February 13, 2015, the US State Department published on its website the “Section 515.582 List,” which describes the Cuban goods and services eligible for importation into the United States. This announcement is the latest component of the US Government’s recent relaxation of the comprehensive US embargo of Cuba,…