Akrivis Law Group Partner Farhad Alavi will be on a May 25 webinar panel sponsored by the American Chamber of Commerce Abu Dhabi (AmCham Abu Dhabi) including former US Ambassador to the UAE Michael Corbin, as well as other distinguished guests. Titled “Trade Expectations in…
Cases underscore possible heightened enforcement against foreign financial institutions The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued two penalties against non-U.S. financial institutions this past week. The agency’s December 28, 2020 settlement with Saudi Arabia-based National Commercial Bank (NCB)…
On July 1, the U.S. Departments of State, the Treasury, Commerce, and Homeland Security issued a detailed advisory (the “Advisory”). This is in response to the various types of regulatory exposure companies could face when dealing with suppliers and vendors in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, given…
Akrivis Law Group, PLLC and AZHA Avocats of Switzerland co-hosted a sanctions compliance seminar in Geneva at the Hotel President Wilson on Thursday, January 16.
Akrivis and top Scandinavian firm Gorrisen Federspiel led a session in Copenhagen on U.S. and E.U. sanctions & export controls.
On October 18, Akrivis Law Group, PLLC with the help of its friends at AmCham Abu Dhabi, held a compliance briefing at the Ritz-Carlton Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC).
November 6, 2018. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to issue its latest Client Alert, titled U.S. Completes Reintroduction of Post-JCPOA Iran Sanctions. The United States completed its phase-in of sanctions against Iran following the decision by President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Joint…
Federal appellate court rules in a case of critical significance to the trade compliance community Click here for a PDF version of this alert. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled today in favor of our client Epsilon Electronics, Inc., in a…
Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to release its latest Client Alert, titled United States implements significant relaxation of Cuba Sanctions, co-written by Managing Partner Farhad R. Alavi and Senior Counsel Eric N. Ubias. This Client Alert concisely details some of the key changes to…
Managing Partner Farhad Alavi was interviewed and quoted in a Bloomberg article titled Did Donald Trump’s Executives Violate the Cuban Embargo? The article covers repeated travel to Cuba by affiliates of the Trump Organization where potential hotel and golf course sites were scouted on the island…
