The EU has announced that it will designate a further four persons in connection with the crisis in Ukraine, on the basis that they have misappropriated Ukrainian state funds. The relevant legislation will be published in the EU Official Journal tomorrow. This brings the total number of persons subject to an EU asset freeze in connection with the crisis to 22. We will update this post tomorrow with details of the persons and the legislation.
Sunwinder (Sunny) Mann is a Partner and is Chair of our International Commercial and Trade Global Practice Group. Our Trade team has been ranked Tier 1 by Legal 500 UK for over 20 years. He is currently based in our London office, but has also worked in our offices in Washington, D.C., New York, Sydney and Hong Kong. Sunny's practice focuses on international trade compliance and, in particular, export controls and trade sanctions, as well as anti-bribery. He has worked on a number of significant compliance and investigations matters. He leads our Firm's Geopolitical Risks Taskforce, having coordinated our Firm's support to clients responding to the ongoing Russia crisis.