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.
November 6, 2018. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to issue its latest Client Alert, titled U.S. Completes Reintroduction of Post-JCPOA Iran Sanctions. The United States completed its phase-in of sanctions against Iran following the decision by President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Joint…
Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to be co-hosting a Trade-Based Financial Crimes Symposium on Thursday, September 28, 2017 with the George Mason Antonin Scalia Law School’s Journal of International Commercial Law. This event will bring together practitioner panelists, who will discuss bank fraud and…
Managing Partner Farhad Alavi appeared on National Public Radio’s (NPR) All Things Considered today, September 20, 2017, on a piece concerning the potential impact the Trump Administration’s Iran policy could have on commercial aircraft manufacturer Boeing’s intended sales to that country. Mr. Alavi regularly advises clients…
April 14, 2014. Akrivis Law Group, PLLC Managing Partner Farhad Alavi was quoted in an article in The New York Times regarding the deal announced on August 7 between French automaker Renault and Iran Khodro Co., Iran’s largest automotive manufacturer. This article, titled Iran Reaches…
Federal appellate court rules in a case of critical significance to the trade compliance community Click here for a PDF version of this alert. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled today in favor of our client Epsilon Electronics, Inc., in a…
Managing Partner Farhad Alavi was an invited speaker at a two-day conference titled Implications of the Nuclear Agreement with Iran held at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark) Faculty of Law. Mr. Alavi presented on The Iran Sanctions Regime and Remaining Challenges: The US Perspective on a…
A commentary by Akrivis Law Group, PLLC Managing Partner Farhad Alavi titled Iran, Trump, and the nuclear deal in 2017 was published by Dubai-based Arabian Business today on its website. This piece covers the basics of the Iran nuclear deal, commonly referred to as the Joint Comprehensive Plan…
Akrivis Law Group, PLLC is pleased to release its latest Client Alert, titled United States implements significant relaxation of Cuba Sanctions, co-written by Managing Partner Farhad R. Alavi and Senior Counsel Eric N. Ubias. This Client Alert concisely details some of the key changes to…
Akrivis Law Group played hosts to guests from around the world on Wednesday, September 21 at Washington landmark Cafe Milano on the occasion of the annual International Bar Association (IBA) summit being held in our hometown this year. …
