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
We are proud to announce that Akrivis has been ranked by Chambers in White Collar in Florida, noting partner Walter Norkin (Miami) has also been ranked in this category.
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.
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…
November 27, 2013. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to release a Client Alert on new measures of sanctions relief afforded Iran following Sunday’s agreement between it and the P5+1 over Iran’s nuclear energy program. The article, titled What is the Impact of Sanctions Relief…
November 20, 2013. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC Partner Farhad Alavi will again be speaking at the American Conference Institute’s annual Economic Sanctions Boot Camp. This event will also be held in New York and will be from December 4-6. Mr. Alavi will be speaking on…
Practice aimed to unite many talents found within the firm, including its compliance background to focus on the specialized needs of foreign financial institutions with respect to U.S. requirements. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC, is pleased to announce that as part of its banking and finance…
Akrivis Law Group has once again made The New York Times. The daily mentioned the firm and quoted partner Farhad Alavi with respect to an article discussing the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (OFAC) issuance yesterday of General License E…
Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is proud to announce that firm Partner Farhad Alavi and Bryan Cave partner Clif Burns were able to successfully obtain authorization from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets for their mutual client, Iranian tennis referee Adel Borghei…
Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to announce that it is representing internationally recognized Iranian tennis umpire Adel Borghei pro bono in his attempt to serve as an umpire in the upcoming U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York. Mr. Borghei had been invited by…