On July 16, 2020, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) amended and extended two Ukraine-related general licenses related to GAZ Group (“GAZ”). Notably, General License No. 15I (“GL 15I”), issued to replace General License 15H, authorizes a wider range of activities related to the “the manufacture and sale of existing and new models of vehicles, their components, and spare parts” produced by GAZ. By way of background, GAZ was…
On May 12, 2020, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced the lifting of US sanctions on Nynas AB (“Nynas”) and the related revocation of General License No. 13E (“Authorizing Certain Activities Involving Nynas AB”) (“GL 13E”). We blogged about last month’s extension of GL 13E here. Nynas and its subsidiaries were previously subject to US sanctions because Nynas was indirectly owned and controlled by Petróleos de Venezuela SA (“PdVSA”) and,…
On April 21, 2020, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) amended General License (“GL”) 8E and re-issued it as General Licence No. 8F. GL 8F extends the validity period of certain maintenance activities involving Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (“PdVSA”) until December 1, 2020, but also narrows the scope of the prior license and provides a new authorization for “wind-down” transactions and activities. Our blog posts describing previous amendments to the general license…
On April 3, 2020, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) re-issued and extended General License No. 13E (“GL 13E”) to continue the validity period for transactions concerning Nynas AB and its subsidiaries (“Nynas”) that otherwise would be prohibited under Executive Order 13850 or Executive Order 13884 given Nynas’s 50% indirect ownership by Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (“PdVSA”). The authorization was extended through 12:01 am EST on May 14, 2020. In a…