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

13.05.26

PCB Byrne LLP will be participating in the London Legal Walk on Tuesday, 9 June 2026

08.05.26

PCB Byrne LLP are co-hosting two events at the London International Disputes Week

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A Global First in Asset Tracing

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