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.
June 28, 2014. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC wishes its clients and friends observing the holiday a very healthy and happy Ramadan.
June 24, 2014. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to issue its latest Client Alert on the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s revised policies that were issued last week for self-disclosure of previously unreported overseas assets and accounts. This is particularly important for those entities having holdings…
April 24, 2014. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC Managing Partner Farhad Alavi was a panelist on the Ofogh news show on Voice of America’s Persian-language service. The program topic was U.S. sanctions on Iran’s civilian aviation industry and the impact of the Gevena P5+1 negotiation with…
April 14, 2014. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC Managing Partner Farhad Alavi was quoted in an article in The New York Times regarding the impact of sanctions relief on business with Iran. This article, titled Sanctions Are Eased; Iran Sees Little Relief, addresses changes in the…
April 6, 2014. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC and Managing Partner Farhad Alavi were mentioned in an article in the Wall Street Journal. The article, titled “Iran Can’t Withdraw Much Oil Revenue Under Interim Nuclear Deal” details the challenges Iran faces following implementation of the Joint…
March 24, 2014. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to release a Client Alert on the United States’ expanding response to the growing crisis in Ukraine.
March 7, 2014. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to release a Client Alert on the United States’ response to the growing crisis in Ukraine. This short brief outlines the summary points of the actions the White House and the U.S. Department of the Treasury…
March 5, 2014. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC co-hosted a breakfast seminar with the Dubai-based Al Tamimi & Co. law firm on Tuesday, February 25 in the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) Ritz-Carlton Hotel. This event was attended by over 50 high-ranking business people, executives, as…
Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is proud to announce that it will be co-hosting a breakfast seminar on sanctions on Tuesday, February 25 in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) with Al Tamimi & Co, the largest locally based firm in the United Arab Emirates and…
January 27, 2014. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to release a Client Alert on guidance issued jointly by the U.S. Departments of the Treasury and State following the implementation of the November 24, 2013 Geneva agreement between the P5+1 and Iran over Iran’s nuclear…