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Economic Sanctions and Foreign Investment
Sanctions & Compliance
We handle economic sanctions, export controls, anti-money laundering and related matters, closely monitoring the ever-evolving sanctions regimes relating to UK, U.S. and EU sanctions and trade restrictions imposed in response to the situation in Ukraine, as well as those against China, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, and North Korea.
Investment Reviews
The team routinely advises on national security reviews of foreign investments by CFIUS in the U.S., as well as similar reviews in the UK and EU.
Navigating sanctions regimes
How Control Risks can help
US, UK and EU regulators are shifting their focus from expanding sanctions regimes to implementing them. With the focus on those who deliberately circumvent or inadvertently allow violations, organisations are reconsidering their approach.
With experts strategically positioned worldwide, Control Risks combines deep regional insight with global analytical expertise. We deliver decision-grade sanctions intelligence that enables clients and their legal counsel to assess exposure, anticipate enforcement risk and make defensible choices under pressure.
Our sanctions advisory is structured around the three core challenges organisations face when navigating sanctions regimes, informed by decades of experience supporting clients across jurisdictions and sectors. Whether you require strategic guidance on managing sanctions risk or timely intelligence on the most consequential sanctions developments, Control Risks can help.
An interview with Maya Lester
Maya Lester KC, Brick Court Chambers & globalsanctions.com
Maya Lester KC is a barrister at Brick Court Chambers, specialising in sanctions law & public law. She represents and advises companies, individuals and governments before the English and European courts (as a member of the English and Irish Bar) and has acted in most of the leading cases. She founded and co-writes the leading sanctions resource www.globalsanctions.com Maya has given evidence to a number parliamentary inquiries on sanctions, spoken at numerous conferences and is the legal directories’ only Star Individual for sanctions.
