We regularly advise and assist with applications to OFSI for licences to allow our clients to underake specified activities which would otherwise be prohibited by sanctions legislation.

Notable Experience

  • Representing the subsidiary of a Russian bank in the EU in a complex licence application involving the Bank's efforts to realise client securities due to its winding down of operations in the EU.
  • Representing a Cypriot subsidiary of a sanctioned Russian bank to realise client funds and securities that have inadvertently become a consequence of the asset freeze measures on the bank.

News & Insights

11.12.25

Cutting to the Chase — A Faster Route Through Arbitration? Matthew Wescott and Yana Ahlden write in ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE Magazine

11.12.25

High Court awards Robert Gagliardi US$5.385 million in damages for ECM’s failure to pay discretionary bonus

09.12.25

Government slashes rights to trial by jury in court shake-up – Emma Brooks in City AM

04.12.25

Lammy’s Band Aid — Swift Courts, Curtailed Juries