In this sanctions alert, we seek to summarise some recent developments relating to US and EU sanctions.

The EU today adopted the 15th package of sanctions against Russia. We include a key summary of these new measures as well as further updates on recent developments relating to Norwegian, EU, UK and US sanctions.

This was a question many asked after a recent judgment from the English Court of Appeal. Sanctions target those designated as well as those owned or controlled by designated persons. Understanding the precise scope of what constitutes ‘control’ under UK sanctions can be challenging. In this article we shed some light on this analysis, based on recent case law.

In this article, we summarise the following recent developments relating to UK sanctions:

Over the past few weeks, there have been a number of developments in the Norwegian, EU, UK and US sanctions regimes relating to Russia. In this article, we summarise the following recent developments:

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Senior Associate

Jack advises on a broad range of matters relating to International Trade, focusing particularly on commodities and trade compliance.

Jack has acted for commodity traders, energy majors and financial institutions prevalent in the commodities sector in both transactional and contentious matters. 

With respect to trade compliance, Jack's practice covers all aspects of EU/UK sanctions and export control laws. As part of this, Jack has experience dealing with regulatory authorities in relation to both sanctions and export control investigations and licencing procedures. Jack also has experience in dealing with contractual issues and trade-related due diligence in the context of commodity contracts and M&A transactions.

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Jack works within international trade and global energy, focussing particularly on physical commodities and trade sanctions.