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.
Akrivis Law Group was recently involved in the successful transfer of two Miami Beach hotel condominiums subject to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) forfeiture action as part of the Department’s KleptoCapture task force formed in 2022 in response to the invasion of Ukraine. These…
In its latest move to counter the national security threat posed by Russia sanctions invaders, the Biden Administration targeted over 300 companies and individuals around the world on Wednesday, October 30, placing them under either sanctions or export controls lists. OFAC Sanctions U.S. Department of…
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 [email protected] 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…
