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, PLLC is pleased to now offer policy advocacy and lobbying services for our clients. We will provide these services at the federal level in the areas of legislative and regulatory counseling, international trade, tax, agriculture, manufacturing, financial services, and non-profit and trade…
Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is proud to announce that it will be co-hosting its second annual breakfast seminar in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on U.S. regulatory compliance issues on February 10 with Al Tamimi & Co, the largest law firm in the Middle East.…
December 17, 2014. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to issue its latest Client Alert on President Barack Obama’s landmark speech today charting a new path for U.S.-Cuba relations, heralding numerous significant changes in the decades-long embargo against the island state. The Alert, titled Obama…
Akrivis Law Group, PLLC has just released a Client Alert on the favorable outcome of the federal investigation of firm clients Hetran, Inc. and its upstream owner Mr. Helmut Oertmann. This Alert outlines the facts of that case, which has been reported in various news…
December 3, 2014. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to announce that a two-year investigation of its clients Hetran, Inc. of Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania and its upstream owner Helmut Oertmann has concluded following charges of conspiracy to violate U.S. sanctions on Iran. Notably, Mr. Oertmann received…
October 30, 2014. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC Partner Farhad Alavi appeared on Voice of America’s Persian News Network (PNN) discussing the legal ramifications under U.S. sanctions laws related to recent reports in the Wall Street Journal of Apple’s proposed sales of products to Iran. The…
August 13, 2014. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC Partner Teresa Taylor appeared on Voice of America’s Persian News Network (PNN) discussing U.S. sexual harassment laws. The clip (dubbed in Persian/Farsi) can be viewed by clicking this link.
Akrivis Law Group, PLLC wishes its clients, colleagues, and friends a very happy and peaceful Eid holiday.
July 21, 2014. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to release its latest Client Alert, titled New Enforcement Provisions of HIPAA HITECH Mandate Stronger Compliance. This alert was written by Teresa Taylor, a partner of the firm. It discusses key hot topics in compliance for…