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…
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…
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…
Akrivis Law Group, PLLC has again authored a chapter in this year’s Global Investigations Review (GIR) Guide to Sanctions. The chapter, entitled Parallel Civil Litigation: The US Perspective, was co-authored by Managing Partner Farhad Alavi (Washington, DC) and Partner Sam Amir Toossi (New York) and covers key topics in civil litigation…
Partner Sam Amir Toossi (New York) was quoted by Global Investigations Review (GIR), a London-based trade publication in the article US eyeing Iran for Russian sanctions, export control evasion, which explores the role of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s role in assisting the Russian state…
By Farhad Alavi The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today announced scores of designations onto its List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (the “SDN List”). These 25 individuals and 29 entities collectively had a nexus to 20…
Akrivis Managing Partner Farhad Alavi has been quoted in a feature article in Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly magazine. The article, translated in English as “Should Iran’s Revolutionary Guards be on the EU terror list?” addresses recent moves by the European Union and other jurisdictions to…
