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…
We are pleased to announce Akrivis Law Group that our client Engro Polymer & Chemicals Ltd. (EPCL) has been officially removed from the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry & Security’s (BIS) Unverified List. The change took effect on December 16, 2022 and was published in…
By Farhad Alavi (Washington) & Sam Amir Toossi (New York) The Biden Administration has been steadfast in its imposition of Russian sanctions in response to their invasion of Ukraine. These newly imposed sanctions are merely the latest example of how the U.S. uses its various…
Norkin Joins Akrivis Following a Distinguished Nearly 20 Year Career as a Prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice WASHINGTON – November 1,2022 – Akrivis Law Group, PLLC announced today that it has hired Walter M. Norkin as Head of the firm’s International Defense Practice. …
Sam Amir Toossi, Partner, New York Farhad Alavi, Partner, Washington On September 15, 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a Memorandum from Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco on Further Revisions to Corporate Criminal Enforcement Policies Following Discussions with Corporate Crime Advisory Group (“Memorandum”).…
Sam Amir Toossi, Head of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Commercial Litigation practice authored a piece on cryptocurrency and sanctions evasion featured on the cover of World Export Control Review (WorldECR) in its August 2022 issue. “There’s little conclusive evidence that cryptocurrencies are being…
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…
Partner Sam Amir Toossi (New York), Head of Investigations and White Collar at Akrivis, was quoted this past week by Law360 on recent developments in the U.S. Department of Justice’s prosecution of former Trump advisor Steve Bannon for contempt of Congress in failing to appear…
Akrivis Law Group is proud to announce that its client Mushko Electronics (Pvt) Ltd. (Mushko) has been officially removed from the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry & Security’s (BIS) Entity List. The change took effect on June 28 and will be published in…
