Global Sanctions Experts
Independent experts for sanctions, trade controls, disputes, investigations, maritime matters, financial sanctions and geopolitical risk worldwide.
Expertise across US, UK, EU, UN, UAE and other major sanctions and trade-control regimes.
- Sanctions
- Trade Controls
- Investigations
- Maritime
- Finance
- Political Risk
- Disputes
Find the right expertise
Start from whatever you already know: the expert you need, the problem in front of you, the regime, the industry or the place.
- By expertiseThe discipline you need, from master mariners to former heads of sanctions.
- By serviceExpert evidence, investigations, due diligence, licensing and more.
- By regimeUS, UK, EU, UN, UAE and the other major sanctions authorities.
- By industryShipping, banking, insurance, energy, technology and beyond.
- By country or regionRegional specialists from the Gulf to Central Asia.
- By issueOwnership and control, frozen payments, circumvention, delisting.
Core services
The work independent experts are instructed to do, from a first assessment to evidence at a hearing.
All services
The Strait of Hormuz and the Musandam Peninsula, seen from orbit.
Current priority issues
Chokepoints, circumvention and controls on strategic technology are driving the disputes and investigations of the moment.
- Strait of Hormuz
- Red Sea & Bab el-Mandeb
- Maritime & Shipping
- Oil Price Caps
- Sanctions Evasion & Circumvention
- Frozen & Blocked Payments
- Ownership & Control
- Trade & Export Controls
- Economic Security & Investment Controls
Industries
Experts who have worked in the sector explain how sanctions bite in it.
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Maritime & Shipping
Sanctions fall heavily on ships: on their owners, cargoes, routes, insurers and financiers.
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Banking & Payments
Banks are where sanctions are applied day to day, and where most disputes about them begin.
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Oil & Gas
Energy is the most heavily sanctioned sector, from upstream investment to the cargo on the water.
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LNG
Long-term contracts, specialised vessels and a small number of projects make LNG acutely exposed.
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Semiconductors & Advanced Computing
Chips, the tools that make them and the systems they power are the focus of modern export controls.
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Aviation, Defence & Aerospace
Aircraft, parts and defence goods are tightly controlled and easy to trace.
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Mining, Metals & Critical Minerals
Strategic resources sit where sanctions, export restrictions and political risk meet.
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Technology, Software & Cloud
Software, cloud and IT services are restricted by both sanctions and export controls.
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Global regimes
Each jurisdiction has its own authorities, lists and tests. Experts are matched to the regime in issue.
- United States: OFACThe Office of Foreign Assets Control, part of the US Treasury, administers and enforces US economic sanctions.
- United States: BIS Export ControlsThe Bureau of Industry and Security, part of the US Department of Commerce, controls exports under the Export Administration Regulations.
- United KingdomUK sanctions are made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 and applied by several bodies.
- European UnionEU restrictive measures are adopted by the Council and applied and enforced by each member state.
- United NationsUN sanctions are imposed by the Security Council and bind every member state.
- United Arab EmiratesThe UAE implements UN Security Council sanctions and maintains its own local terrorist list.
- Switzerland: SECOThe State Secretariat for Economic Affairs applies Swiss sanctions under the Embargo Act.
- CanadaCanadian sanctions are administered by Global Affairs Canada under several statutes.
- AustraliaAustralia applies UN sanctions and its own autonomous sanctions through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
- SingaporeSingapore gives effect to UN sanctions and has adopted its own targeted financial measures.
- JapanJapan applies sanctions and export controls mainly through the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act.
Who we work with
- Law firms
- Banks and financial institutions
- Shipowners and ship managers
- Charterers
- P&I clubs
- Insurers and reinsurers
- Commodity traders
- Oil, gas and LNG companies
- Technology companies
- Aviation, defence and aerospace companies
- Private equity and investment firms
- Family offices and private wealth
- Multinational corporations
- Logistics and freight companies
- Governments and public bodies
- International organisations
- NGOs and humanitarian organisations
- Insolvency and restructuring professionals
Proceedings and matters
- Litigation
- International arbitration
- Regulatory investigations
- Designation reviews
- Enforcement proceedings
- Internal investigations
- Civil forfeiture
- Insurance claims
- Investor-state disputes
- Expert determinations
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