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.
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry & Security yesterday added 34 entities (43 entries in total) to its Entity List, placing those parties under a near blanket ban on U.S. origin goods and technologies. Our Client Alert, which summarizes the decision and provides…
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)…
WorldECR (Export Control Review), a premier trade publication based in London, last month published an article co-authored by Akrivis Law Group, PLLC Partner Farhad Alavi and Daisuke Takahashi of Shinwa Sohgoh Law Offices in Japan on removal from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on October 20 that it was imposing a $4.1 million penalty against Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc., its subsidiary MC International Metalworking Companies B.V. (“IMC”) and IMC’s wholly owned Turkish subsidiary, Iscar Kesici Takim…
One of the greatest challenges and opportunities presented by the COVID pandemic is how businesses, large and small, can handle ongoing contractual commitments when the business climate has changed. There are a myriad of types of commitments affected, including debt obligations, real estate leases, supply…
August 17, 2020. Partner Farhad Alavi was interviewed on TRT World, Turkey’s 24-hour English language news channel on Sunday, August 16, regarding the recent controversies surrounding the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and the debates over funding and mail-in voting between the Trump Administration and the…
