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

04.12.25

Lammy’s Band Aid — Swift Courts, Curtailed Juries

24.11.25

The Non-Assignability of ICSID Awards: The English Commercial Court’s Analysis in OperaFund v Spain

14.11.25

PCB Byrne recognised by The Times Best Law Firms 2026

14.11.25

An “affront to justice and inimical to the fundamental norms and values of civil litigation in [England]”