Sanctions and export controls
As international sanctions and export control regimes continue to evolve at a whirlwind pace, our global team of experts works with multinational businesses to help them navigate complex compliance challenges involving sanction and export control laws. Our team also conducts investigations into potential sanctions and trade law breaches, implements remediation steps, and manages government investigations and enforcement actions.
We work with clients from diverse sectors—including financial services, technology, private equity, retail, commodities, oil and gas, defence, infrastructure, transport, telecommunications and media—to help them detect and mitigate sanctions and export control risks in their day-to-day operations and M&A or strategic transactions. Our team regularly assists clients, together with our Risk Advisory team, in designing and implementing global sanctions compliance programmes that reflect their unique risk exposure and business needs.
We have also produced a range of content and publications to help you keep up with developments in this area.
For more details on our experience and global capabilities see Sanctions on our Investigations page.
Our tracker provides a high-level summary of the measures imposed by each of the UK, EU, Japan and Australia following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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Corporate crime and investigations: How to avoid a sanctions investigation (and prepare for the regulation of tomorrow
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Corporate Crime and Investigations: Sanctions, Investigations and Enforcement, 25 July 2023
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