On Thursday 3 October, our Amsterdam office will host our flagship âTrade Dayâ event for senior in-house legal professionals. This year, we will be joined by over 15 of our Baker McKenzie colleagues from across Europe, the US and Asia who will share their insights on significant developments across: For more information and to register please see: Amsterdam Trade Day 2024 | Insight | Baker McKenzie. Please note that space is limited and registration is…
On 29 June 2024, the EU adopted a new Belarus sanctions package by amending Council Regulation (EU) 765/2006 (the âEU Belarus Sanctionsâ), effective from 1 July 2024. The amending regulation can be found here. The new package increases the alignment of the EU Belarus Sanctions with the EUâs sanctions against Russia (including those contained in Regulation (EU) 833/2014 (the âEU Russia Sanctionsâ), as recently updated), in order to address the risk of circumvention. The new…
On June 27th, colleagues from Baker McKenzieâs Rome, London, and Washington DC offices will host a webinar focused on the latest US, EU, Italian and UK sanctions and export controls developments in an environment of ongoing geopolitical disruption. As part of our series of insights from senior officials, Baker McKenzieâs team will also be joined by Giovanni Brignone, Embassy Counsellor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Armament Materials Authorization Unit, as well as Filippo Mancuso,…
The sanctions enforcement storm is underway. As we highlighted in the introduction to this blog series, the quickly evolving sanctions landscape of recent years has increased the complexity of compliance. Keeping up with ever-changing multi-jurisdictional sanctions and adapting compliance practices has proven challenging for companies with complex operations and supply chains. Instances of non-compliance can be inevitable. A company’s investigation triage plan should evaluate mandatory disclosure obligations and, if there are none, the availability and…