To offer a consolidated faculty of speakers across the globe that will deliver cutting-edge insights and guidance virtually on key global compliance, investigations and ethics trends, our Annual Mid-Year Trade Compliance sessions are now part of our Annual Compliance Conference that will be taking place virtually from 30 April – 6 June this year (with a vacation break during the week commencing 27 May). With 14 virtual sessions across five weeks, we want to…
On January 30, 2024, Baker McKenzie, in partnership with the International Compliance Professionals Association, hosted a virtual fireside chat with Matthew Axelrod, the Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement for Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) in the US Commerce Department. The webinar attracted 3,200 registrations from across industry, with participants raising a wide variety of questions. In the discussion with Baker McKenzie partners Janet Kim (Washington, DC) and Sunny Mann (London), Assistant Secretary Axelrod discussed…
On July 26, 2023, the US Departments of Treasury, Commerce, and Justice published a Tri-Seal Compliance Note on the voluntary self-disclosure (“VSD”) of potential violations of US sanctions, export controls, and other national security laws (the “VSD Note”). This publication is the second Tri-Seal Compliance Note issued by the agencies and continues the enforcement focus on the sanctions and export control measures targeting Russia in particular and national security concerns more generally. The first Tri-Seal…
On August 9, 2023, President Biden issued Executive Order 14105, targeting certain US investments into Chinese companies or Chinese-owned companies engaged in three advanced technology areas (Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern, the “EO”). The EO directs the US Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) to issue regulations that will (1) prohibit certain categories of US outbound investments and (2) require notification of other investments involving the…