We advise individuals and corporates on sanctions and export control compliance, enforcement and legal challenges. Our clients are banks and other regulated financial institutions, law firms and other professional service providers, non-governmental organisations and charities, importers and exporters operating across a range of industries including aerospace, art, defence, energy, engineering, maritime, real estate, telecommunications and transport.

Our compliance work builds on our extensive experience of dealing with licensing authorities in the UK and overseas, and related interactions with regulators and private sector counterparties. We work closely with sanctions specialists around the world in order to deliver tailored and timely compliance advice to our clients, ranging from issue-specific compliance advice to preventative advice on the content and implementation of internal policies and procedures including bespoke training.

Drawing on our firm’s unrivalled business crime expertise we are ideally placed to advise on actual or potential sanctions breaches and related reporting obligations. We advise on and assist with internal investigations and represent our clients in their interactions with regulators and enforcement agencies worldwide.

We have unrivalled experience of administrative and judicial challenges to sanctions designations and licensing decisions. We brought the first judicial review of the UK’s implementation of EU sanctions, as well as the largest sanctions-related annulment application ever filed at the EU General Court on behalf of 123 Zimbabwean individuals and entities.

With the help of our specialist civil litigation and insolvency teams we assist our clients with the resolution of disputes arising out of the impact of sanctions on contractual arrangements, including in connection with contested litigation and international arbitration proceedings.