Two former Supervisory Board members of PJSC Otkritie Financial Institution have been removed from the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (the SDN List)
Partners Farhad Alavi and Sam Amir Toossi authored a chapter in the 2023 Global Investigations Review (GIR) Guide to Sanctions, reflecting new developments and insights gained in the past year
Our partners attended the 2024 International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Conference in Mexico City.
We are proud to announce that Akrivis client Mushko Electronics (Pvt) Ltd. (Mushko), a leading PC sales and service distributor in Pakistan has been officially removed from the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry & Security’s (BIS) Entity List.
On October 21, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 26 companies and individuals to the Entity List for engaging in activities contrary to U.S. national security and foreign policy. The entities added were from the following jurisdictions: China (6),…
Akrivis partners Farhad Alavi (Washington), Walter Norkin (Miami/New York), and Sam Amir Toossi (New York), attended the International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Conference in Mexico City this year, which was between September 15-20.
By Farhad Alavi, Partner, Washington, DC On June 12, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Department of State, and Department of Treasury announced a wide range of new sanctions and export controls related measures and actions that are being taken to counter Russian aggression against Ukraine.…
The U.S. Departments of the Treasury, State, and Commerce announced broad sanctions on Russian related entities on Friday, February 23, the eve of the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Click here for our latest Client Alert. Text is below. By Farhad Alavi, Partner,…
February 8, 2024. The U.S. government and allies last week began a crackdown on Iraqi organizations and nationals with ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (“IRGC”) Qods Force (“IRGC-QF”) and its proxy groups throughout Iran and parts of the Middle East. This action was…
Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to announce that it has once again contributed a chapter to the annual Global Investigations Review (GIR). This chapter, titled Parallel Civil Litigation: The U.S. perspective, addresses aspects of U.S. civil litigation that may ensue in the event of…
We are pleased to announce we will be attending the International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Conference in Paris this year October 29-November 3. Please contact Ms. Anna Dinh at info@akrivislaw.com or +1.202.730.1721 to schedule meetings with the attending partners.
We are pleased to announce that Akrivis Law Group, PLLC has authored a chapter in this year’s Global Investigations Review (GIR) Guide to Sanctions. The chapter, entitled Representing Designated Persons: A US Lawyer’s Perspective, was co-authored by Managing Partner Farhad Alavi (Washington, DC) and Partner Sam Amir Toossi (New York) and…
Akrivis Law Group is a proud sponsor of this year’s Global Investigations Review (GIR) Summit in Madrid from October 4-6. This three day event brings top experts in the white collar investigations and sanctions fields from around the globe, including governments and premier law firms,…
Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to announce that two of its clients, Andrey Golikov and Elena Titova, have been removed from the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (the SDN List) administered by U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets…
