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

25.02.26

PCB Byrne named in Solomonic top 30 ‘powerhouse’ commercial litigation law firms, 2026.

11.02.26

PCB Byrne secures recognition of five Chinese judgments worth c. £25 million

10.02.26

Success in the Court of Appeal

04.02.26

High Court orders Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin to disclose documents held by Norilsk Nickel in major commercial dispute