On 8 June 2022, law No. 2271-IX (“Law”) became effective. This Law expects to prevent the turnover of pharmaceuticals manufactured in Russia or Belarus, or marketed by marketing authorization holders affiliated or otherwise related to companies with pharmaceutical manufacturing in these countries. For more details on the draft of this law, please refer to our dedicated legal alert. As a next step, to enable the implementation of the Law, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine…

We are pleased to invite you to our Virtual Global Trade Conference on July 20 and 21. In lieu of our annual conference in Bellevue, WA, we are excited to again provide a virtual offering available to all our clients and friends worldwide! Please join our international trade compliance lawyers from around the world as they discuss and examine the major developments impacting international trade. This conference will be comprised of 75 minutes sessions over…

With effect from 27 May 2022, a new set of sanctions was introduced by the Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) against the following individuals and legal entities:1 Aleksey Likhachev – director general of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation (the Russian Federation) Vladimir Yevtushenkov – shareholder of Sistema Public Joint Stock Financial Company (the Russian Federation) Sistema Public Joint Stock Financial Company – business conglomerate in the Russian Federation (telecommunications, retail, high technology, logging…

On 20 May 2022, The Italian Parliament confirmed Law-Decree No. 21/2022 which the Government had enacted in March 2022 to introduce certain significant changes to the Italian rules on foreign investments review (FIR) in response to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia (see our article here). The result is Law No. 51 dated 20 May 2022 (Law 51/2022). By way of background, in the Italian constitutional framework, the issuance of State-wide laws falls within the…