Our team has advised legal entities and individuals on navigating complex licensing issues before authorities such as OFSI, OFAC and other European regulators including safeguarding and protecting their rights before the Courts or Arbitral Tribunals.

Our practice also includes advisory work in that context, assisting clients across several industries including the financial services, retail, commodities telecommunications and transport, addressing possible exposure under domestic and international sanctions regimes covering the United Nations, the UK, the US (in combination with trusted partner law firms) and the EU.

• Multiple licence applications for a financial services firm trying to meet pre – existing contractual obligations to clients against the backdrop of sanction issues.
• Licences for ongoing maintenance of frozen assets subject to financial sanctions.
• Co– ordinating overseas licences to permit the flow of funds across jurisdictions to meet financial obligations against a backdrop of serious and complex sanctions issues.